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Howie Diamond Would Consider Locker at $1M on $6M to $7M Cap

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Howie Diamond (Pure Ventures) explains to host Josh Muccio the terms and user growth conviction that would have made Locker investable.

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“If she came in and was like, I'm raising a million on six or seven million cap, and we are going to get to half a million users, and here's how we're going to do it, and she had that conviction, I would be more inclined.”

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