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Warms Intros in VC with Zehra Naqvi, Undefeated Underdogs #shorts

26 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Zehra Naqvi explains how to make warm introductions in VC: always give the recipient an exit door so they can decline without pressure. This keeps expectations zero and builds genuine rapport, since most people in tech want to help founders succeed anyway.

I want to highlight a couple of things which you mentioned, which is always have an exit door, offer an exit door so that the receiver won't feel obliged, like we're insisting them to like, hey, do it, or pressurizing them to make it happen.
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So that itself means you're okay with having zero expectations. So it kind of builds a builds a good rapport between you and the receiver. And again, I feel most of the people, at least I know in tech and startups, they genuinely want to help founders. They want the founders to win.