Jay Desai, Angel Investor

I invest at all stages, but mostly very early. I love helping founders with the core aspects of building, like product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising. But I find that founders especially value our relationship during the most vulnerable moments of the journey— co-founder conflicts, awkward board conversations around founder secondary, burn-out, or M&A, or balancing personal life stress with work. One of the ways I like to help founders is by helping them build stronger, more authentic relationships with their teams. I was CEO and Founder of PatientPing, a company I started in 2013 that connects providers to coordinate patient care. It was my first time in a tech company, a start-up, as a manager, as a CEO, and as a founder. The one area where I was deep was the customer, which in hindsight, is what mattered most then and mattered most throughout. I learned the rest by asking a lot of questions, surrounding myself with exceptionally competent people, and a lot of hard work.