Ryan Peterson
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5 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 20 Jun
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But I was, like, on the third meeting with this fund, and I was still talking to the, not the junior person, but I wasn't at the final decision maker yet.
And so I told the guy, I was like, hey, I've decided to go in a different direction here.
This isn't going to work out, and I'm going to raise, you know.
And within an hour, I got phone calls from, like, three other funds.
who I hadn't picked a different investor.
I just was trying to let this guy off the hook.
And within an hour, all the funds that I was still talking to called me, like, hey, what happened?
I heard you picked a lead.
And the amount of rumor mill and collusion that happens in VC, founders have no idea.
And you can use it to your advantage.
It can work against you, or it can use it to your advantage.
You're looking for an outlier who will value you more than everybody else.
So that collusion does not work to your advantage unless they're all hyping you up and saying, dude, this is the best company ever.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I was getting at before.
That's crazy that they're sharing that externally.
No, no, no.
And they're trying to get ahead within the firm by showing that they don't bring dumb deals because they've referenced it.
Well, and I also think founders should basically never share their metrics, which I've done on the show, so I don't care anymore.
But you should never share your metrics.
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