Friday at 10 AM: How Investors Survive Last-Minute Chaos!

Term Sheets, Cap Tables, and Coffee—All on a Deadline.

Author

Glenda Carnate
October 04, 2025

Read time: 2.5 minutes

Friday mornings are high-stakes for tech investors. Term sheets, cap tables, and last-minute board requests pile up, and stress levels spike. In fact, four in 10 investors admit to feeling stressed when thinking about their portfolios, compared with three in 10 Baby Boomers (31%) and Millennials (29%) (Source: LSEG, 2025).

Most of us used to try fixing everything, thinking we were indispensable. The reality? Chaos doesn’t make heroes…. it exposes bottlenecks.

Key Challenges

  • Valuation assumptions are on fire.

  • Missing projections mock you.

  • Term sheets get accidentally overwritten.

  • KPIs misalign with reality.

Status check:

  • Cap table: broken

  • Financial models: #REF!

  • Projections: missing

  • Pitch deck: corrupted

  • Sanity: MIA

Practical Leadership Fixes:

  • Delegate clearly—your team isn’t a puppet.

  • Stop micromanaging—obsession isn’t a superpower.

  • Set sharp goals—clear, measurable, and actionable.

  • Teach problem-solving—let your team learn and adapt.

Key Takeaways:

True leadership is about distributing responsibility, not carrying it all yourself. Build systems. Build people. Chaos is fine... your team can survive and succeed without you micromanaging every step.

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