The best investors in the world are not all operators, but are often former operators. Expert pilots will have a ouno ten thousand hours behind a yoker or flying an aircraft in an emergency. And then the third try to find people who have run businesses before. The goal is to become once removed from the entire world. If you can do that it's substantially easier to achieve your ambition.
Two startup CEOs share their approach to fundraising, Andrew Farah explains the strategy he used to raise $100M for Density (03:58), Dejan simplifies his community-forming principles for SoleSavy (38:27), and both give tactical lessons from the mistakes they made along the way (46:23)! Deck: https://bit.ly/3b8gz8g