Pay To Play
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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6 statements about Pay To Play, every show
Spahr: AI search engines actively penalize pay-to-play PR contributor articles
“AI is hip to that kind of trick, and so that's why those sort of obvious sort of pay to play shenanigans aren't really doing as well.”
Saper Discloses Emergence Capital Has Participated in Pay-to-Play Rounds
“I personally have not yet been part of a pay to play. My firm certainly has but it sucks. It just feels bad on all accounts, but sometimes it's necessary to get the company funded.”
AngelList tracked 48 pay-to-play venture rounds in Q1 2023
“So in Q one so far, we've seen 48. These would be these would be the pay to plays.”
Emil Michael: Pay-to-play recaps never work for tech startups
“These pay to play things never work. It didn't work at bird. It didn't work at Lime.”
Pay-to-play provisions have returned to venture capital deal structures
“It doesn't come back. It is back. It's back. Pay to play is on the table.”
Pay-to-play speaking works as customer acquisition only with backend monetization
“Pay to play works if you have a strong back end, where then you can monetize is a, is advertisement. So you will pay an event promoter to put you on a stage because they do all the hard work really. And that's why it works. So it works if I can convert and the…”