Patrick O'Shaughnessy

What are like the internal assets that companies have or don't have that if they have them, it's made the Decagon experience like way, way better?

We were talking last time about in any business, but certainly in yours, the three key stakeholders being your team, talent that you have to recruit.

And I want to talk about that in detail.

Capital, investors, and customers.

Maybe suppliers, too, is a fourth category, but especially interested in the first three.

And the last time we were together, I asked you, like, which one do you have trouble with?

And we laugh because you said, well, definitely not investors.

Talk a little bit about the demand from investors to invest in companies like yours and how that feels.

What are they doing to try to give you more money, get on the cap table?

How competitive does it feel?

What does that feel like right now?

Because it does seem like there's a handful of companies like yours that are in one of these white hot areas that have key traction, that have great teams.

And basically every investor wants to be involved in those companies.

What does that feel like?

What's the craziest thing that an investor has done to try to invest in the business?

I'm going to ask about this from both founder and investor perspective.

What advice would you give investors during that window?

Like when there's a fundraising that's happening, you know, there's sort of an open process or a window or whatever.

What have you seen the best of them do well?

Not just, I'm sure, helping you.