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founders should consider when navigating the current funding landscape? Okay. Yeah. Great question. Current funding landscape is you're up against high growth companies, that are raising money at high valuations. If you're not high growth, VCs have h
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...investors in. And then some of the largest investments are companies like SpaceX
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...investor who could be a small part of around and you have two or three months in the bank and asking them for money would get you to four or five, that's a lot less attractive than if the same amount of money would get you to eighteen months. Right?
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two to three x price increase for a significant derisking of product market fit. That's a much more attractive insertion point in my mind than paying the four on 20 with very little data. The second element of series a that I think is important is ju
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and it's not something that is artificially juiced or or, it's not like the growth is on steroids. It's like the growth is coming from the fact that you go to the gym. That's more sustainable than than using steroids. You can, maybe not you should pr
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...investors narrow the focus area of what they can cover in diligence. You have to have a prepared mind coming into things, and you have to be really smart about where you spend your time. So, you know, we always focus on the three or four things. You
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Some companies, they put a lot of money into growth. They can get the growth, but they're also spending more than they're making. And eventually, that function just doesn't work. Like, you you need to keep pricing more and more money. And it might be
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And yet for three straight years, the fundraising challenge has been intense enough that the number of funds being closed has declined. In fact, we are at the level right now of funds being closed in 2024 that we were at in 2017, so a decade long low
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hear things like, it's really good market. Let's let's do something. And I always thought and and still thinking that companies should raise when they need cash. I'm not saying that we should raise when it's three months runway. No. That's fine. But
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This just over doubled the valuation to about $3,000,000,000. So to start, why did the company go back and raise so much money so quickly again? So first of all, you know, the the timing was, more of a preemptive, situation where our insiders, Accel,
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And then if we can prove payback and the CFO believes, okay, if you're spending 100, you're giving the 100 back in less than six months, let's say. Keep spending because we can see money coming back. So there's so much for me to unpack here. We go fr
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So we invest a lot of energy on attributing every single interaction and and that normalizes that percentage a little bit. It it starts to attribute to channels that are not last such like paid social and so on. So it normalizes a bit, but it's still
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of market conditions, competitive environment. So, you know, there are instances where I'll tell founders that it would make sense to relax their criteria and maybe spend a little bit more in the name of growth if it's a hypercompetitive market and i
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emerge, and, you know, we've had to adapt as a result of that. And so there's been a lot of changes. You're right that these companies become platform companies very quickly. You've got ecosystem build out. So none of this is necessarily new, but the
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current funds, but also to try to buy some time into what might be a better market. Right? And that leaves us in a place where there's just less cash available. So what do you say finance risk first? I was just taking notes. Yeah. You mean concentrat
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