Brandon Dawson
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4 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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So you got to have something that a venture capitalist or a private equity group really says, this looks amazing.
So you could spend all your time pitching to never get a deal.
So you can waste an enormous amount of time with your concept to your business and never find funding for it.
And you got to remember, 97% of all businesses fail.
So if I'm a VC and I've got $100 million and I'm going to go put $3 million into 33 companies, I only need one of them to work and I can still get my returns marked at 3, 4, 500%.
Whereas if you're the entrepreneur...
and you're one of the 33 that succeeds, that's great.
But if you're one of the 32 that fails, they'll also cut you off the knees faster than you can blink.
So, you know, it's not for the faint of heart.
And you better have a solid plan.
And here's the thing about businesses, and you'll know this more than most people understand.
The what you do is only going to get you so far.
It's who you do it with and how you do it that's going to scale and create value.
And so you can have the greatest idea and be the smartest technician and be the greatest inventor.
But most likely, at some point, you're going to screw it all up because you don't understand leadership.
You don't understand all the science behind actually finding, attracting, aligning, and developing and keeping great people.
You don't understand leadership.
how to actually properly run a sophisticated financial organization that's responsible like a public company would need to be.
And so all these things get learned through trial and error.
And VC is not patient money.
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