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Looking for investors beyond money - Jack Newton, CEO at CLIO

26 May 2024 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a conversation where Jack Newton (CEO of CLIO) discusses how investors can differentiate themselves beyond providing money. He emphasizes that founders evaluate investors by the similarity and relevance of other companies and advisors in the investor's portfolio — e.g., founders, CEOs, or operating advisors who have lived through comparable growth journeys or domain-specific challenges (payments, scaling SaaS).

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It used to be in this world. Mark, you know this as well as I do. What is our value add beyond money? How can we convince Jack to take our money over, you know the the lineup of investors that's behind us when when again you know money is kind of the definitionally fungible commodity that that is not differentiated in and of itself. And I when they're asking how can we differentiate ourselves really my the the most important question for me is who do you have in your portfolio that looks like what CLIO will be in two or three years? What, what CEOs what what founders do you have in your network? What operating advisors do you have in your firm that have seen again some flavor of our journey? It doesn't need to be a vertical SaaS company that is scaling from 200 million to a billion of ARR but is it a payments company that has seen some flavor of the payments journey? We're.