Founders

VCs benefit when founders think their company is earlier stage, lower valuation, higher risk, and lower upside than it actually is. Keep your feet on the ground and be hungry, but stay confident, shoot for the stars, and don't apologize for valuing yourself and what you've built.

Head of Engineering at Courtyard.io, bringing physical collectibles onchain. nf.td/joe /courtyard /backend

Def agree with you both.  Curious @jpetrich what are you seeing as methods they're using to peg valuations / growth downwards.

Assuming you've got metrics (at the A and higher) how do they discount these?

CTO @beelinesai, CPO @snickerdoodle, CEO Zealous. YC/TS Alum & Mentor

Makes sense, investors will often seek maximal value just a function of how much of that they're willing to take out of your end.

Good investors see the partnership for the long-term value creation, bad investors will seek to extract as much as possible.

That seems an surprisingly stable a experience.

Speaking purely from public comments I've seen, there's a lot of talk about uncertainty with the overall economy, the advice that too high a valuation can make it impossible to raise again, and discussion of the valuations in hot verticals (ai) vs others. I wouldn't want to speak out of turn about private conversations I or others at my company have had with investors- I think we've gotten great advice and introductions so largely have dealt with forthcoming and honest investors who aren't pretending incentives are what they aren't.