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Eric Siu explains deal flow: why early Amazon and Google investors got in. They were connected to the founders. If you do interesting work and build a strong network, better deals come to you.
Eric Siu explains deal flow: why early Amazon and Google investors got in. They were connected to the founders. If you do interesting work and build a strong network, better deals come to you.
What does deal flow actually mean? So when you think about investing, let's say you were an early investor into Amazon or early investor into Google, you would have made a lot of money, but how would you have gotten access to that deal? Well, if you happen to have known Amazon, let's say, or let's say you're one of the Google founders, like you actually happen to know Jeff Bezos. Well, Jeff Bezos, because he was already a successful entrepreneur, he was getting deal flow. And so what tends to happen is People that are doing interesting things and people that have— they tend to get access to things as well. And that also means they get access to deals and they get to invest in some of the hottest companies that are, that are up and coming.
