Steve Lord

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

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So dry powder is really still at a record, right?

By vintage, it's even wider than it used to be.

So older funds are carrying more capital.

the corporate environment.

So the think of the metas and the Googles and the Intels, the folks that come alongside and invest in these companies too.

They're getting more active and they're they're able to stay with a client with a portfolio company all the way through an IPO and beyond.

Right.

So but the venture

dry powder, the unlocking of that sort of capacity really, if you expect them to buy into your vision.

It's not the right marketplace for that.

That was that was twenty eighteen.

That was twenty twenty one, where if you were an AR company, you could raise money on a on a pitch tag.

Now it's you gotta you gotta have the vision, sure.

You have to have the team, you have to have the the economics figured out, but you have to have in this this is such an important point.

Clearly and succinctly.

Delivered pathway.

to getting the company where you want it to be, right?

Because

Right now you're going out to the market with a forty-four page deck.

It's not gonna work.

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