Rahul Vohra

For investors...

I was fortunate to have sold a previous company.

I'd sold my last company, Reportiv, to LinkedIn.

By the way, Reportiv was also in the email space.

We'd built the first Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users.

Basically, on the right-hand side of Gmail, we showed you what people look like, where they worked, their recent tweets.

And that is now a feature inside of Superhuman Male.

I had some track record as a founder, which is a useful thing, especially when you have a crazy sounding idea.

And so I went to all the people I'd made money for, and I was like, hey, listen, I have this new idea.

I think it's a great idea.

It's probably going to sound crazy, and I can pitch it to you, but I think you're going to want to invest in it just because it's me, as opposed to the specific idea.

And if you have a set of people who believe in you like that, then that's great.

You should just go do that thing, right?

And I think that's how I raised the first million or two million.

I'd already raised a million for Reportive, and we ended up giving all this money back.

And basically, my pitch was like, can I have the million back again?

And plus, plus, I want to do something great with it.

When it came to, you know, call that a pre-seed round.

When it came to like the real seed round or the series A or the series B, obviously that doesn't work.

I mean, it can maybe work if you're a well-known enough founder, but I needed to tell a real story.