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Communication & influence · Disagreeing well

The fund's operating partners and your deal team disagree on the first hundred days at a new portfolio company — they want to swap out the CFO immediately, you think it's too early and will spook the founder. How do you handle the disagreement so the company doesn't feel the fund is divided?

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The first rule is that the company never sees daylight between us — a founder who senses the fund is split will play the sides, and we lose the ability to lead.

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