Steve Tuck
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1,075 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Steve Tuck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it was really hard.
And so it took me like 30 minutes and I kind of had like something that was not very good.
And you were off doing something else.
And then just like, oh God, I can't, it took you 30 minutes to record 45 seconds.
I'm like, yeah, I'll come back here in an hour and a half.
when you are... Actually, no, you sat on the couch to watch it.
It was too tough to watch, honestly.
It was too painful to watch.
I can't... But the walk and talk is actually a great... And then 45 seconds feels like a more natural amount of time.
So, yeah, I like the walk and talk.
Yeah, you can't be 100% founder owned.
I mean, that means like, so that to us, for us to be founder owned and not rely on venture capital.
Bootstrap this.
Yeah, it means that Steve and I have had $200 million.
That's right.
I mean, that's like, that doesn't, so it doesn't work that way.
It's like you're getting someone to invest and that investment does not necessarily come, this is where like control and the board structure and governance all becomes like really, really important.
um and the and there are but it gets really it can get really gritty too i mean i think this is where there's a big difference between good deals and bad deals and bad deals and deals that you good investors and bad investors and um i mean just bluntly you've got there's a big difference between kind of top tier silicon valley firms and then you can you can get go pretty far down the market where
you get firms in this, I think I will say that this does tend to happen more in other geographies because I think it's just less competitive from a venture capital perspective, but where Adam, you get like, you know, participating preferred and you get ratchets and you get all this other kind of like nonsense that really does put the firm, the company's kind of in jeopardy.
Now people are raising money like that because they feel they have to, but we are not, yeah, we are not in that,
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