The best investors often share one thing: they built something first. This panel brings together two former founders who now deploy capital on the other side of the table, and a senior banker who advises entrepreneurs through their most defining moment — the exit.
Together, they explore what the founder journey teaches you about picking winners, why operator-turned-investors evaluate companies differently, and what the exit process reveals about where real value lives. A conversation for growth-stage founders wondering what comes after the build, and for investors looking to sharpen their own frameworks by learning from people who lived both sides
