Slavin: Fundraising fundamentally requires telling a story of scale and growth
Kevin Slavin · There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator · Dec 6, 2017 · at 13:07
Kevin Slavin, co-founder of game design studio Area Code and Chief Science and Technology Officer of The Shed, discusses the core requirement when pitching investors for capital.
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“People might argue with this, and I don't even know if I believe what I'm saying, but I think probably I would say that the essential story that you have to tell when you're fundraising is a story of scale, right? Like, because the premise of fundraising is, is that the money's gonna scale, and that means something else has to scale to produce that scale, right? And that, and so that's just the bottom line, right? Is that you're telling a story of growth”
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