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> Imagine giving 100 teams 5M each instead.

In 2014 I took $250k as an investment and turned it into ~100x that (in cash) in 2017 with a SaaS product.

At the time, VCs said it was “too risky” and so we turned to people in our industry for the investment cash. VCs are funny.



Respectfully it may have been above their risk tolerance, and of course you being successful with it doesn't make it a prudent investment. That's the "I won the lottery so everyone should have played the lottery" thing.


As the other person said, doesn’t mean it wasn’t risky.

But also, people in your industry may have been in a better place to assess that risk.


just because you succeeded doesn’t mean it wasn’t risky.




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