Lavingia: Building agenda-free relationships with investors makes early fundraising smoother
Sahil Lavingia · #98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present · Dec 8, 2020 · at 13:25
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia describes how building genuine relationships around product development allowed him to easily raise angel funding from figures like Naval Ravikant.
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“And it was honestly a relatively smooth transition because I'd built up these relationships with people around just talking about product and talking about, there was no agenda. I wasn't selling them anything. So I'd sort of already effectively sold them on my abilities to build stuff and be really committed to that path. And so when I decided to raise money, it, I'd almost done all of the work, you know, accidentally.”
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