thank you for putting this together! I find it most interesting that becoming an angel investor is the most common outcome for founders with successful exits. Is it because they didn't like being founders, and don't want to start another company? Or is it because they want to be the angel investor they never had? Or something else?
Regardless, I think it's awesome that they're investing capital and knowledge into future founders
Indeed super interesting but unfortunately we have no insights in the causation, rather just correlations and distributions. In the end, no matter in which function, it's great to see them contributing to the ecosystem and helping others avoid the same mistakes they've made in the past.
I agree that successful exits give you wind on fundraising side, although it doesn’t guarantee any success. At the end it comes down to how well founders know their market, how fast can they build sellable/buyable product.
thank you for putting this together! I find it most interesting that becoming an angel investor is the most common outcome for founders with successful exits. Is it because they didn't like being founders, and don't want to start another company? Or is it because they want to be the angel investor they never had? Or something else?
Regardless, I think it's awesome that they're investing capital and knowledge into future founders
Indeed super interesting but unfortunately we have no insights in the causation, rather just correlations and distributions. In the end, no matter in which function, it's great to see them contributing to the ecosystem and helping others avoid the same mistakes they've made in the past.
I agree that successful exits give you wind on fundraising side, although it doesn’t guarantee any success. At the end it comes down to how well founders know their market, how fast can they build sellable/buyable product.
Totally agree. There's never a guarantee, yet interesting to see how the odds improve and why this might be the case.