Your board should be your strongest strategic asset — but too often it becomes a reporting obligation or, worse, a source of friction.
This panel brings together a board governance expert, a founder who navigates board dynamics from the hot seat, and a VC who sits on multiple boards as an investor representative.
They tackle the moments that make or break a board: its composition after the first institutional round, the first real crisis, and the inevitable clash between founder vision and investor expectations. They unpack the central misunderstanding: what VCs actually look for versus what founders think they look for. A sharp, practitioner-led session for founders who want their board to accelerate growth instead of slowing it down, and for investors who want their board seat to create value, not just oversight.
