Matt Prados

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Top Founders · $100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation · 12 Oct 2022 podcast

I didn't go to school for any financial stuff.

I walked out of college after six weeks.

I'm a sales and marketing guy.

I've never been in the VC world.

I've never played there.

So once we started to get success, I was like, well, what are these guys about?

What are they going to talk about?

You know, what are they going to look at?

And so I actually used them three times in the last three and a half years to dissect our business and tell me what's wrong with it.

Right.

They're all going to be, you know, like, oh, your business is so great.

Right up until the point where you're like, give me money.

And then they want to tell you what everything that's wrong with your business.

And so you want to get to a term sheet.

You don't want to just have the nice talks because that's where they're like buttering you up.

That's the pretender date or whatever.

Not the like, let's go home part of Tinder.

Uh, they, they're, they're drastically changed.

So get to the point where they drastically changed because all of us as founders have inflated ideas of what our businesses are worth.

Thanks to Qualtrics selling for like 22 times revenue and whatnot.

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