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Often there are situations where the founder’s vision does not align with what the investor imagines the founder’s company could pull off. The founder is far closer to the reality of his product / company, than an investor is ever able to get. This mismatch – one at the microscopic level and the other at 10,000 ft., leads to a lot of heart burn in the partnership.

Founders, specially the first timers, at times could be quite conservative in their vision or blinkered in their approach for the company. Quite understandable, given their singular focus on building a specific pain-point / opportunity, great depth in domain, it’s hard for them to take a step back and look at a bigger picture! For a founder the fund-raising milestone is a significant milestone and surely a commendable achievement, but on the other side it’s merely the start of the journey, a first step, for the incoming investor!

At Cornerstone, we do our best to be cognizant of these situations. We like to go the extra mile to work with founders to be on the same page with them and build a vision that we mutually believe in. Doesn’t happen on day 1, this again is quite a journey and at times best taken up milestone by milestone – as long as we are headed towards the same goals of value creation – be it establishing category leadership or gaining tremendous value-chain control!

Nothing is more exciting for us than working with founders who have a bigger vision than our imagination, a rare find and complete delight for any investor!

- Abhishek

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