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We are both YouTubers and songwriters who saw a chance to bring two of our passions together.
DFTBA Records produces and distributes creative, independent music projects. Our artists all made a name for themselves on YouTube, cultivating huge audiences based not on marketing or saturated radio play, but on talent. We’ve taken these YouTube stars, and helped them reach a dedicated and large audience.
founders still had a majority of the board seats after the series
A round.
as if founders retaining board control after a series A is unheard-of.
A lot of them try to make you feel bad if you even ask—as if
you’re a noob or a control freak for wanting such a thing. But the
founders I heard from aren’t noobs or control freaks. Or if they
are, they are, like Mark Zuckerberg, the kind of noobs and control
freaks VCs should be trying to fund more of.
VCs pick better. If they know they can’t fire the founders, they’ll
have to choose founders they can trust. And that’s who they should
have been choosing all along.
