Founders DON’T need to think about exits

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There are two schools of venture capital investors: the ones that ask the founder about their plan to exit and the ones that don't.

Imagine if you married someone and when you propose you would ask him or her about a divorce? How would you feel?

Some VCs are putting the weight of serving their own venture capital financing model on the shoulders of their founders. They expect them to think and plan to serve their LPs.

The role of the founder is NOT to return the investments or multiple to Limited Partners. The job of founders is to build and scale their companies!

They need to think of large markets, their customers, and have a long term and big vision to build a big and successful company. It's their job to build value to all their stakeholder by building their company.

It's the role of the investors to help the founders and company scale, and they can use their control and capital in their portfolio of companies to make sure they exit, to build their business in a viable way with return to their LPs.

I believe that VCs should NOT ask founders who would buy them. Most likely whatever they say would not happen, since venture is so unpredictable.

Founders need VCs to go with them for the long run, to reinvest, and to hold their investments in difficult times. I spoke with a company that both founders had terrible times personally and the fund let them keep the investment until they are in a better position to build - that's a good mindset.

If the company will be a successful, there will be many paths for an exit, but a founder should build to stay and not build to exit.