How to Actually Add Value - by Mario Gabriele

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor, founder, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Become a member today. Friends, After a brief paternity leave, The Generalist is officially back in action and ready for an exciting final stretch to 2024. We can’t wait to share some of the interviews, guides, and pieces we have lined up to help you wrap up the year on top form and accelerate into 2025. Today’s piece covers venture capital’s most controversial subject: “adding value.” To utter those two words in the context of VC sounds sarcastic, best accompanied by an eye roll. It is a phrase that has become a meme, a synecdoche for how little many investors actually do but how much they like to talk about it. The whole “how can I be helpful” thing has become a meme in venture capital. But ultimately, I’ve found it comes down to helping companies hi

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor, founder, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Become a member today. Friends, After a brief paternity leave, The Generalist is officially back in action and ready for an exciting final stretch to 2024. We can’t wait to share some of the interviews, guides, and pieces we have lined up to help you wrap up the year on top form and accelerate into 2025. Today’s piece covers venture capital’s most controversia