Manus Dropped $25K Investment Over Legal Conflict of Interest
Aparna Srinivasan · #87 Uber for Pets · Mar 3, 2025 · at 27:01
Aparna Srinivasan (founder of Spot On) recounts how investor Jillian Manus offered to invest $25,000 into Spot On before her legal team flagged a portfolio conflict of interest.
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“She said, I'm going to invest. I want to put in 25,000. So everything was all set. I was just waiting for her to sign the documents. She said she was sending it to her legal team so they can review it really quick. We were all thinking, yay, it's a green light. Let's go. A couple of days before we were supposed to close, she came back to me and said, I just heard from legal. And there seems to be a conflict of interest.”
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