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“Essentially, management started with zero of the company, and the investors with a hundred percent.”

“So many things don't have access to funds. There aren't industries or investors or whatever set up around to fund things because the market might not be sizable enough. And then even the things where the market might be sizable enough that the deal you have to…”

“The, you know, the thing that has, I mean, this is not to suggest that investors, you know, rushed with enthusiasm to invest in Stripe. Most investors said no, but the reason was much more, or reasons were much more because they just thought it was a bad idea,…”

“I mean, like, a hundred percent of the time, they would give the opposite advice today.”

“And because most investors are men, They were able to compare it to something they did, which was rent a tuxedo.”

“Every time we got a really hard question, that would go right to the front of the pitch deck. So the hardest questions were answered right at the front.”

“It was always part of our plan to go public, meaning we wanted Eventbrite to be a public company, and so this wasn't an agenda that was brought on to us by our investors, but rather, you know, our own agenda.”

“I was so excited to show that Peloton is an awesome business and the total addressable market is massive. It's not small as some of the narrow-minded investors thought.”

“The problem with hardware is that investors are nervous about it. Investors shy from things that require hardware because then you have to have logistics and you have to have manufacturing and you have to figure out how you're going to sell these things and it…”

“So we had a bit of a strategy where rather than asking if people wanted to invest, we'd ask people for their advice, and you can go back and you can say, hey, do you want to give me some advice? I'd love to show you my pitch deck, and then they'd give us some …”

“And just because investors didn't feel personally connected to the pain point, did it mean it didn't exist.”

“Investors usually look for the, you know, highest return in the shortest amount of time. They look for templates and they look to check all the boxes of things that worked well. And if they go outside of these boxes, then they're taking another risk. So it's n…”

“When we raise money, we raised it with no exit strategy. And typically that's the first question investor has is, well, how am I going to get my money back? And we would say, we're not sure we're not ruling out selling, but it's not something we're focused on.”

“Oftentimes there was a kind of a sharp divide between The people actually running the restaurant day to day, and then the people on the business side of it who just were investors and they had no idea. You could probably ask any of them to go in and fry an egg…”

“We ran out of money after two restaurants and our investors didn't want to give us any more money. And so we went and took a loan out against everything that we had worked for. We took a loan against our full service restaurants, against these fast casuals”

“I do think, especially for early stage investing, there is an element of pattern matching for investors, and there is a little bit of a lens where I was a, you know a mompreneur.”

“I felt like I was constantly putting on some sort of suit of armor every day, like pretending things were great, pretending that everything was going well, including with investors, even when they could have helped.”

“We had gotten just ridiculed left and right by investors when we went out with our projections, and I think our projections had us doing fifteen million in the first year.”

“As we talked to investors there just wasn't a lot of enthusiasm about it.”

“But every investor that we've spoken to is wants to see a million dollars in trailing revenue.”

“I think you always want to go if you're pitching short answer is it depends who you're pitching, but you can never go wrong with going out with a big vision for how you're going to grow beyond your initial category. So it's great advice and, you know, you shou…”

“Whatever the amount is, times it by five or 10, because that's what they want back. So that's really what you're taking. If you take a million dollars, you're really taking ten million because you've got to give ten million back. That's what their expectation …”

“I told the investors we needed, we were gonna lose three billion dollars.”

“You know, it was, I always say that this private label contract manufacturing is like having an investor because you generate the cash to put into the brand.”