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SaaStr 608: AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin at SaaStr Annual 2022 - Part 2

The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

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VC's Don't Prefer Bootstrapped Companies

Jason Smith: VC's prefer bootstrapped companies. He says they want signals, the YC is great that we talked about that first round did the pre-seed but what they want is hot companies with room on the cap table where they can buy every share they want. The different point is bootstrapping is harder and I asked Ben Chestnut for milchimp if you were saw that session and I didn't,. But we asked Michael Cannon Brooks from it last night and everyone says the same thing... It typically takes three to four years longer being bootstrapped.

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