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Lionel Lim

Founders must embrace 'design with a capital D' if they want to convince investors, says a partner at Alphabet's GV

(Credit: Lucas Schifres for Fortune)

Do startups need to care about design? At the early stages, founders may want to focus on the product rather than worrying about how it looks, making design a “nice-to-have” for founders to add once they’ve proved to investors that they have a product that works.

But Vanessa Cho, design partner at GV, Alphabet’s venture capital division, argues that’s the wrong way for founders to think about design. 

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