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Pitching Every Week to Startup Investors Gave Sean Fu Confidence

Name: Pitching Every Week to Startup Investors Gave Sean Fu Confidence
Uploaded: 2020-08-13T22:57:52+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this excerpt, Sean Fu recounts how pitching every week through programs like YVY and FI dramatically increased his confidence and honed his pitch…

13 Aug 2020 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, Sean Fu recounts how pitching every week through programs like YVY and FI dramatically increased his confidence and honed his pitch craft. He emphasizes the value of presenting to varied audiences—investors, sales teams, and clients—and describes his initial nervousness despite no prior public speaking experience. He explains FI's unconventional scoring system (no 3-point scores, maximum of 5) and shares mentor feedback that ranged from low to high scores, ultimately reinforcing his growth through repeated practice.

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I have to pitching, pitching, pitching every single week. That built my confidence, built the idea how to do the pitch. And not just to the investors, you also pitch to your sales team. You also pitch to your clients, you pitch to different people. And those are the most valuable things that I think I learned from YVY and I trained from YVY. And yeah, like I've never done public speaking in my entire life, even like before the first pitch, doing the class at FI, and I think I was like pitching to close to like 40 people. I was like shaking at first, and FI has this rules like no 3 points, like a maximum points is like 5, and they don't give out a 3. So either you get a 1, 2, or 4, or 5, and I got a 4. And like one mentor was giving me like 1, and the other 2 was like giving me 4 and a 4. So it builds the confidence, and you get to practice a lot over there. Yeah.