Attracting Investment... and When you Shouldn't
10/17/22 • 26 min
The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).
In this episode, Ben and Joel go through the pain of trying to raise enough money to finance their expansion into the US and rebuild of their product team. With time and options running out, Matt offers a radical rethink of the raising process - but is investor money all its cracked up to be?
Links:
The Great CEO within by Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo
Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly
The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).
In this episode, Ben and Joel go through the pain of trying to raise enough money to finance their expansion into the US and rebuild of their product team. With time and options running out, Matt offers a radical rethink of the raising process - but is investor money all its cracked up to be?
Links:
The Great CEO within by Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo
Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly
Previous Episode
How to Pitch... and What to Sell
The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).
In this episode, Ben has to quickly turn around a troubled pitch before the company runs out of investment opportunities, and Matt is quick to spot where the problem lies. Meanwhile Joel is facing a stark question: Is it better to build the product investors want, or the product we want?
Links:
The Great CEO within by Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo
Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly
Next Episode
What Have We Learned? The Finale
The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).
In the final episode, Ben and Joel head to the US to put all Matt's teachings into practice and launch their journey to go from start-up to billion-dollar unicorn.
This episode features Matt Mochary as well as entrepranuer, author and former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss.
Links:
The Great CEO within by Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo
Chris Voss
Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly
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