Naseem SayaniInvestor | Innovator | Ecosystem Builder | Board Director

“What you don’t ask for, you don’t get.” #femalefounders #magicalthinking #venturecapital

Name: “What you don’t ask for, you don’t get.” #femalefounders #magicalthinking #venturecapital
Uploaded: 2026-04-01T16:15:03+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Naseem Sayani
Description: Two speakers explain how female founders often underprice themselves by not asking for enough funding. Magical thinking means envisioning success and…

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Two speakers explain how female founders often underprice themselves by not asking for enough funding. Magical thinking means envisioning success and acting like it's already happened. The rule: what you don't ask for, you don't get.

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One of my favorite female founders that I know who really helped me early in the fundraising process saying, you need to figure out this thing called magical thinking. You need to figure out how to imagine what's possible. Like you still have to have your feet on the ground, but you have to imagine what's possible and you have to think as though it already has happened.
I agree. I do very much believe in the magical thinking and I think we as women aren't verse in it. We're versing it. We don't use it. I'm gonna separate those two things. We end up lowballing ourselves because we're just not asking for more. And what you don't ask for, you don't get.