It’s remarkable how true this is. Investing can be frustrating for every investor when you don’t win a deal but the high quality ones never take it out on founders and the low quality ones routinely do via rants about prices being too high / founders being naive.
one thing i’ve noticed is the stronger the investor, the better they tend to treat founders during fundraising
i think there are two reasons for this
first, genuinely secure people rarely feel the need to play status games
second, the best investors are heavily pre-filtered. they spend most of their time talking to exceptional founders, so they know every interaction matters
lower-tier investors often talk to a much broader set of companies and can feel like they don’t need to be as careful
obviously there are exceptions
it’s wild how much an investor can stand out simply by treating founders well
