Mark MacLeodFounder, Limitless.ceo · The Startup CEO Coach | Helping ambitious CEOs & founders scale world-changing companies without sacrificing their health, happiness, purpose, or humanity

if you want to be wealthy, don´t raise money from investors

15 May 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube transcripted exchange (featuring Mark MacLeod and another speaker) arguing that founders who aim to maximize personal wealth should avoid raising outside investor capital. The speakers claim that investors’ incentives focus on returns to capital and building very large businesses, which can be misaligned with a founder’s goal of becoming personally rich; they recommend self-funding instead.

At the end of the day, I believe that if you're in it to make a lot of money for yourself and have the highest chances of doing that, do not raise money from any kind of investors, period.
And you're saying if you're looking to maximize your wealth, don't raise outside capital.
Correct. Because your alignment with them isn't that I'm going to become rich as the founder. Your alignment with them is I'm going to build such a big business that there's a massive return on the capital you give me. That has nothing to do with you getting rich. I'm sorry. Right, so if you want to get rich and make a lot of money for yourself, build a self funded business.