Ceo In Residence

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                    • "text": "“What being a CEO-in-Residence with TBD means in practice is that Dmitri is genuinely, actually in it with me. He’s the person I call when I am not entirely sure what to do next, and he picks up. A true champion. That’s not something you can put in a term sheet.”",
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                    • "text": "“The CEO-in-Residence model exists because I’ve seen what happens when a great person gets the wrong structure around them. Too many investors, not enough real support, no one who’s actually been in the seat. We back one or two people a year, because that’s what it takes to do this right. Not at a distance. Alongside them.”",
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          • "headings": "We search for operators with heart\nWe search for teams with hunger and grit\nWe search for ideas ready to grow\n",
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