Steve Lord
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944 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 7 Apr
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So you you kind of gotta have your eye on the interest rate structure.
You've got to know what the LPGP world looks like.
It is still a numbers game.
Now don't don't think that what I'm saying is gonna make it easy to fundraise.
It's really not ever that easy to fundraise, even though it seems it sometimes.
Be all of the things we've talked about before, be aware of the message you're saying, make it tight, keep it clean, and be relatively speaking, be focused on the
advantages your startup can bring to the fight.
There are a lot of AI startups now going into a pitch meeting and saying, hey, I've got this artificial intelligence idea.
I can make an agent that can run your calendar for you.
No one is going to care.
Right.
Right.
So it has to be that we're at that X plus stage now where the founders have to articulate their why me message.
Now better than they maybe needed to do a
Another thing I think founders should have in in the back of their mind is one of the elements we're seeing as really gating items to startup progression is the availability and the affordability of engineering talent in the AI space.
So you could have a very well funded startup with all the right investors and a really good idea and a strong founding team, but they can't hire enough
qualified engineers to actually build the thing at an affordable price.
That's becoming a bit of a concern.
So I think founders need to have this on their radar as well.
You at some point will only be able to move as fast as your engineering team and your product team are able to build.
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