In the Fourth episode of our Tech Lead Twitter space series, Wilco’s CEO On Freund welcomed Redpoint’s Erica Brescia to talk about how the engineering team support a startup during fundraising.

In this session, On and Erica discusses the following:

• Decisions the engineering team can make to help the team towards fundraising.
• What do VCs look for in their technical due diligence?
• What do they look for from an organisational perspective?
• The importance of novelty in the tech used at a startup - should it be cutting-edge? Is that a significant factor?
• What are some red flags you see in CTOs?
• Is it important for the CEO of the company to have technical skills?
• What is a good equity structure for the engineering team?

Listen to the full session here:

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