A lot of people think that fundraising is about things other than raising money to build a really big company. "I kind of think what's going on in the raw truth is investors are doing two things," he says. 'They're pattern matching to previous successes and answering the question like, do you pattern match to founders I've had success with? And then they're stack ranking'
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