GHP #67 - How to Raise a $6M Series A Through Your Customers & No VC's with Raad Ahmed!

Episode 67 is with Raad Ahmed, Founder & CEO of LawTrades!

LawTrades is pioneering a new work model that economically empowers independent legal professionals to monetize their skills, while helping companies build distributed legal teams. General Counsels have access to a highly selective talent network of attorneys, paralegals, compliance, and legal ops, to complement their own legal department and company culture.

We talk with Raad about his early music passions and influences to entrepreneurship. He details his journey from first discovering the internet to making 6-figures in online ad revenue while in law school. Raad also details his mission to achieve a utopian work-life balance through LawTrades, and how they successfully raised $6M at an $80M valuation using just a link and without pitching to VCs. This was a great conversation that weaves through career, life, and philosophy that we hope you enjoy!

LawTrades
https://www.lawtrades.com/

Timestamps
3:05 - Passions & Influences
10:02 - “Passionately curious, but compulsively minimalist.”
18:34 - Challenges of Raising Capital
22:05 - How Justin Khan almost ruined LegalTrades
27:00 - How LegalTrades raised a $6M Series A with their customers
36:11 - VC Funding vs. RUV Funding
43:43 - What is LawTrades & What problem are they solving?
51:34 - Pros & Cons of Legal-Tech Industry
58:34 - Defining & Measuring Success
1:06:00 - Impact of the Founding Team
1:12:38 - Wealth Creation
1:20:36 - How Schooling Needs to Change
1:32:00 - Lightning Round