Steve Lord

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944 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 7 Apr

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They didn't happen for a lot of good reasons.

We did have a continuation of the kind of

you know, slow simmer VC funding environment.

I think a lot of us, in myself included, thought that by the second half of 2025, we would have seen a little bit more velocity going there.

And it just didn't happen.

Um, and I think one of the other things that is important to note is

Investments are or you know the the the economic

tailwind of things like the startup ecosystem, the venture community, even the public stock market is all a predication of expectations, right?

What's going to happen?

It's rarely pricing what's happening today.

And a lot of what we saw in twenty twenty five, especially the back half.

um was a factor of those expectations being pushed out.

And overlay on top of it.

Um, the old saying that Wall Street can handle

bullish predictions and it can handle bearish predictions.

But what it really can't handle very well is uncertainty, right?

And what did we have?

Really, since January of 2025, we have had one fever dream moment after the other, brother left or right, blue or red, it doesn't matter.

It has been a very volatile year in terms of forward expectations.

So I'm not surprised that a lot of this stuff has pushed out.

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