Documentary

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

2019 · 2019

A diligence failure rather than a markets one. Useful for venture and growth interviews because it shows what happens when a board accepts a founder narrative in place of evidence.

• Founders and companies
• Fraud and forensics
• Decision-making

1 idea from this documentary

• Post-mortemFounders and companies

  A board that accepts a narrative has stopped doing diligence

  A compelling story is a claim to test, and the test for a technology is watching it work.

  Venture and growth diligence, and any investment where the case rests on a founder's account of something that cannot yet be seen.