Grimshaw: Waiting for a Perfect Pitch Before Pitching Benchmark Is Silly
Miles Grimshaw · Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 18, 2023 · at 20:09
Miles Grimshaw is a General Partner at Benchmark. He discusses fundraising strategy and warns founders against waiting for the hypothetical perfect pitch before engaging with early-stage investors.
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“Like some, sometimes there's a, ah, I'll only pitch benchmark when I got the perfect pitch. Like that's silly. That doesn't need to be the case”
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