Fox: Founders should demand investor value-add tradeoffs when asked to lower valuation
Jason Fox · #70 What Is Michael Phelps Jamming to Right Now? · Mar 3, 2025 · at 23:18
Earbuds founder Jason Fox explains how he handled pushback from The Pitch investors who offered to invest only if he lowered Earbuds' valuation from $14M to $8M.
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“I don't want to negotiate against myself, so when they ask me to lower the valuation, I ask them, well, how else can you help? And I think there's a trade-off there.”
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