[jacquesm]

> Founders need to understand that venture investing is a business where friendship is an input or an outcome, and not the other way around.

Does anybody know how to parse this?

[evancharles]

My guess is he means that VCs don't make decisions out of friendship.

[akharris]

That is what I meant. Totally agree it wasn't my best turn of phrase. Worked in my head!

[improv32]

I thought it was pretty clever!

[statstutor]

"Your business colleagues are not your friends"

[robaato]

Yup that struck me too as poorly phrased and unclear. Maybe crystal clear to writer, but not to readers...