Lab 141

“I'm five feet tall, which means I'm petite, which is 50% of all American women. I'm also size 18, which means I'm 67% of all American women because I'm plus.”

“We're actually negotiating an LOI with two very well-funded direct-to-consumer brands already.”

“And I've had seventy-something VC angel meetings, but no one's gone out of their way to say, listen, we had an off-the-record kind of conversation, but I really like what you're doing. Let's talk about me investing. That hasn't happened either.”

“So frustrated, in fact, that I don't know if I really want to raise from investors. So I'm kind of stepping back from the hard pitch.”

“There's no equipment yet. There's no proof in the pudding. There's no real work through.”

“So this is at the premium end of the market. We can't compete with items that are 30 dollars. It's between 250 and about 500 dollars.”

“So we have invented a single ply cutting table that my partner and I are on the patents for.”

“We're raising five million dollars in order to kit out our first facility, to make our first hires, and to fulfill the unmet needs of the consumers.”

“One of the things that, that's happened is I go to a lot of events that only have female investors or investors that are specifically looking for female founded companies. And this is a good thing, but I also don't like segregated investors. I want bro money t…”

“The pre-money would be 16.5.”

“I think somehow you're going to raise this money at some kind of big valuation, and I think you know it, because I think that's what you said, you're really good at raising money.”