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A Room That Goes Vertical

15 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Jan Gode describes a curated event that brings together founders and investors to deepen their understanding of each other. The curation creates what he calls a vertical approach: investors get better at due diligence and partnership, founders learn what investors actually want. He calls it one of the best events he's attended.

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Hi, I'm Jan Gode. I am an investor, an entrepreneur, and an advisor to founders who are looking to exit. I speak at many of these kind of events, and what I can say is this is a very highly qualified room. In fact, I just gave them this feedback. If you have a curated room with the right founders, the right investors, and the right conversation, we're able to go vertical with everything that we talk about. And as a result, everyone in the room is going to grow. Whether we're investors, we're going to be more savv with how we do our due diligence, with how we do our partnerships. If we're founders, we're going to know how to partner better with capital and know what they're looking like. And and truly, this has been one of the best events, and I will be coming back.