Second Opinion October 30, 2024
With Tom Cassels, who’s sat on plenty of boards as an independent director
One of my favorite aspects to my former venture role involved the board work. It’s an opportunity, when things go well and the dynamics are healthy, to truly provide helpful advice to companies as they grow. Boards can also be the opposite of that. Founders can dread these quarterly meetings, where they have to convene a group of people with competing ideas about how they should run their business.
So how do you as a founder structure your board well? I’m stuck in traffic this Wednesday afternoon (don’t worry, neither of us is driving), so I probed my colleague Tom Cassels, who’s been involved...
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