Startup Technical Diligence Is a Waste of Time
While intensive technical due diligence at the seed stage is rare (for the good reasons cited in the note), I wouldn&#x27;t make a unilateral assertion that it&#x27;s a waste of time.<p>Some startups ARE technology driven (I bet the Theranos investors wished they did more tech diligence).<p>I find a light &#x2F; informal discussion about technology to be really helpful.  What&#x27;s been built gives a sense of the real (vs stated) tech skills on the founding team (we all tend to reach for what&#x27;s most familiar). For example, if the first version is built on the Microsoft stack, you might want to know that.<p>Finally, code meant to be thrown away always hangs around longer than expected.