Investing Strategies: How to Attract Top Investors and Get Cold Inbound

Name: Investing Strategies: How to Attract Top Investors and Get Cold Inbound
Uploaded: 2024-04-14T13:04:30+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: In this excerpt, Jason M. Lemkin shares his personal investing habit of deciding to back a startup before even meeting the founders, citing early…

14 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, Jason M. Lemkin shares his personal investing habit of deciding to back a startup before even meeting the founders, citing early unicorns like Algolia as examples. He contrasts his approach with other prominent investors: David Sacks prefers a concise two‑line pitch, while Keith Rabois wants a detailed, lengthy deck. Lemkin observes that top investors all value strong cold inbound signals, but emphasizes that the most successful deals are outliers, so any general rules about fundraising or investor preferences should be applied cautiously and may only partially apply to a given founder.

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that I already want to invest before the meeting. That's how I do. Like every, including Algolia, we're going to talk about it. I already wanted to invest before I met. All of my initial unicorns, I all wanted to invest before I met. David Sacks was like, I just want 2 lines. What do you do? And Keith Rabois was like, send me a very lengthy deck. That's good too. But like, and so it was just interesting to hear the different perspectives. But all of these top investors all loved getting the best cold inbound, right? Because every, every, every, every, every top investment's an outlier. Everyone's an exception, right? So be thoughtful about the rules you hear, right? Because they may only partly apply to you.