Jessica Mah

“So I'm always spending, like, I don't know, 10% of my time fundraising, even if I'm not fundraising.”

“If I had to go back in time, back to when I didn't know how to interview people well, I would have had my investors and mentors be a bigger part of my process to help me get the right first few people in, and I didn't rely on them enough to help me evaluate pe…”

“I do prefer people not be like money people. I want them to have operational experience and have experience running a company. I think that's just super important, because they ask better questions, they add more value, they put in more money, they give you be…”

“It's just harder to do that if they're not super patient capital, and you're not going to find patient capital with these early-stage institutionals. That's just not going to happen.”

“Well, you could launch right away, but doing a PR release on it and doing the PR scramble, that is hard to redo.”

“So I'll probably, in the next three years, I'll probably have raised twenty million dollars in mostly angel money, which will be pretty interesting.”

“This is incredibly valuable, I believe, and I'm a hundred percent certain my business would not be half as well off if I had the money just sitting right there ready for me.”

“They're not money motivated. It's not that type of relationship, whereas for an institutional board, it is primarily money motivated.”

“I raised Like, seven and a half million in equity, and then two and a half million in debt, and all from, like, small private firms or individuals.”