Nick Mason: Turtl avoids VC funding to retain founder control
Nick Mason · 1078 How agile content marketing solution Turtl hit $125k/mo · Jul 7, 2018 · at 3:46
Nick Mason, co-founder and CEO of Turtl, explains his fundraising philosophy and decision to raise lean capital from angels rather than VCs.
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“So we want to kind of steer clear of doing it the VC way and, you know, try and maintain control and keep it that way.”
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