RareBreed Ventures

“So yes, we, we've spent a couple minutes telling you how much we think this is incredible, and what you could do with it, so I'm in I'm gonna say I'm in for 50 K, I want to be in for a lot more if I could, I would tell you I'd give you the whole 500, but I can…”

“Well, 10% of the fund is for off-thesis investment, so if it's too high, I'll put it in the off-thesis bucket.”

“You know, what happened was we have done a call and he said, basically, you know, rounds too expensive. We're not going to be able to get that ownership stake that we try and target. So it's not going to be a fit.”

“I have several companies in my portfolio. They're not competitors today, but could be on their roadmap. So like, I have a thing where I always ask my founders if this is competitive. If they say no, it's cool with me.”

“We have three companies in our portfolio that started off with an apparel product, but that was never the business. And the apparel product did well enough that they got the traction where the big business came.”

“If it wasn't for the fact that I was an investor in Early Bird, oh, I'd be really interested right now.”

“It can be really, really tough for a new brand to break in, but even more so, it becomes really tough for a new brand to scale. Like, I've seen companies get two million in revenue, 3.5, it starts to plateau. And then it seems like there becomes a different ga…”

“So I, I'd be excited for Rare Breed to participate at minimum 50, maybe more, you know, going over due diligence and timing, but we got this.”

“People tend to over index on the bombastic founder and less on the more measured. And sometimes the more measured founder is the one who's going to be the better operator.”

“I love founders who are building in the space that they have deep knowledge in, who aren't the technologists, but who are the true operators and understand it.”

“If he can make it work in Sweden, even if he doesn't get to the US, if he can own the Europe. Still a big company.”