[motohagiography]

I read Brad Feld's book and it let me keep up in a few conversations about fundraising. From it, I also derived my own perspective on how fundraising stages drive product decisions, and which in turn drive day to day company engineering culture. https://www.venturedeals.com/

My own view is your engineering management culture is driven by your fundraising activities, and whether they are aware of it or not. Where you are in your board members portfolios (vintage and age of fund, etc) decides how much tech debt (leverage) you will be required to produce, whether you're focused on marquee clients to land the next round, or blowing cash on perks to attract talent, being oddly generous with equity without a view of other prefs and dilution, looking for acquisitions, packaging up your tech for a sale, etc.

Imo, the Feld book gives you the foundational tools to intuit what your founders/execs have to do to survive in the stage the company is in.