[imr]

If investors are obsessed about it, entrepreneurs have to at least have an interest in exit strategies, and one picked out to placate their potential investors.

Don't take investor money if you want to work on one company for your entire career.

[_delirium]

> Don't take investor money if you want to work on one company for your entire career.

So investors don't like companies like Microsoft, Oracle, or Google, where the founders have stayed on long-term? I can see investors not wanting companies with no liquidity events, but that doesn't require the founders to literally exit the company.

[imr]

>Microsoft, Oracle, or Google

All IPOs, which are getting scarce. Certainly some founders are kept around for a long period of time, but if you never take investor money, who is going to force you out?