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Ep159 – Niki Scevak (Co-founder & Partner – Blackbird VC) on raising ambition

The Startup Playbook Podcast

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Are You Looking for That Vertical Learning Curve and That Super High Acceleration?

i spoke to it rory as part of the research process for this interview. He mentioned that when you invested, i in propellar, there was really nothing there. There wasn't a vision or story, or any customers. But you still decided to invest in rorian and francis back then. What are things that you look for when some of the more traditional markers, such as revenue or growth aren't necessarily there? Iaway, say, speed of learning, like, are they going up a vertical learning curve? And a sort of good analogy in my mind is e the sort of basic of high school physics that you learn. So if you think oflike, distance, velocity

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