If you had, a render of a cool looking product, you were getting $2,000,000 to go launch it. Then there was, like, the twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three clap down where you were like, hey, we're doing $5,000,000 in sales. We're profitable. We're growing like crazy, and and VC investors were like, sorry.

If you had, a render of a cool looking product, you were getting $2,000,000 to go launch it.

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If you had, a render of a cool looking product, you were getting $2,000,000 to go launch it. Then there was, like, the twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three clap down where you were like, hey, we're doing $5,000,000 in sales. We're profitable. We're growing like crazy, and and VC investors were like, sorry. Right? Like, yep. Wrong time.

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Captures the absurdity of venture market timing with specific dollar amounts and a perfect contrast between funding a render vs rejecting profitable companies. The 'sorry' punchline makes it quotable.

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There are VCs out there who are really, really, really good at treating, like, the stock is the product, and, like, playing the valuation game exceptionally well. Us personally, like, that's not in our ethos. We're much more on the belief system of, like, if you build the right fundamentals, everything else comes with it.

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