Puroon Shahada
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Podcast Appearances
This was literally just, that's the deck.
intentionally kept it very very you know to the point you know the overall business the TAM and the market sizing exercise how we get our customers what's the go-to-market motion proof points and why it's gonna be hugely creative and then certainly you know details about competition how we can accurately outsmart and outflank everybody
slide on the team, and then a slide that talks about what change we are after in this world, right?
And how would we accurately change the way boards operate?
And finally, our unique selling proposition, why us and not anybody else has the best shot in going after this.
So once you do that, at least in my case, I should say,
We got several term sheets.
In fact, I should go two slides back real quick here.
We ran a process ourselves.
The process piece is on the far right there.
Number one, we were transparently talking about internally, hey, we're gonna raise money, we're gonna do this.
Internally, everybody knew about this.
Even the board helped in working through that moment.
Once we decided we were gonna go to the market, the deck was actually really nothing.
The story kind of sold itself.
You know, the use of funds was the easiest thing ever.
Actually, it's not there on the slide because I wanted to ask them, how would you spend the money?
That was a big part of it.
We did have real, you know, supporting slides.
I only quoted firms that showed a lot of interest.