[btilly]

You might not because the goals of a founder and an investor are different.

Investors know that their returns are generated by a handful of super-successful companies. And so they have a natural pressure to "swing for the fences".

Founders have a tremendous amount tied up in THIS company, and are naturally risk-adverse.

So you get conflicts like the following. There is an initiative which has 20% chance of losing everything, but could double how much you make. Investors will always want to go for it. Founders reasonably may not.