Mark Suster

Upfront Ventures

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Mark Suster is the last person you want on your cap table or on your board. He is the least founder-friendly investor I've ever dealt with and works to remove more founders from the CEO position than any other investor I've come across. Check out which companies he's been on the board of and then check out which of the founding CEOs are still at those companies -- it's pretty terrible. He is extremely untrustworthy, manipulative, insecure, and believes only his opinion is right. He doesn't belong in VC. If you speak privately to other founders he's worked with, the vast majority will agree that they would never let him on their cap table again.

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