Deeter: 95% of VCs rejected his early cloud startup pitch
Byron Deeter · Why your CEO mentality is wrong (with investor Byron Deeter) | Masters of Scale · Apr 17, 2026 · at 2:32
Bessemer partner Byron Deeter discusses pitching his early cloud computing company around 2000, when the SaaS business model was not yet accepted by venture capitalists.
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“Nine and a half out of 10 venture capital meetings when I went pitching threw me out essentially after the first few pages.”
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