As a startup founder, advisor, mentor, and investor, I’ve seen thousands of early-stage pitch decks. Sometimes, there is a slide listing the team members, usually at the end.

But any decent investor knows that the quality of the founding team is what you’re betting on with the first few checks.

What’s missing is, by far, the more important: character.

In this post, I share how investors of time and money—all of us—can better evaluate the character of the people we work with.

With better assessment, we avoid enormous pain and suffering—and spend more time with high-character people who rub off positively on the rest of us.

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