Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and even a term sheet. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Sasha Orloff, founder and CEO of Puzzle
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing that visual AI was the frontier he wanted to push into. It achieved breakneck fundraising that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-equity ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in US history. In this episode of Build Mode, host and Startup Battlefield lead Isabelle Johannessen
Charles Hudson has spent more than a decade investing in startups. As founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures, he has invested in hundreds of companies and seen massive shifts in markets that require founders to get creative and throw out old fundraising playbooks. On this week’s episode of Build Mode, Startup Battlefield lead Isabelle
