Senior Advisor and Chief Executive Partner
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Joined May 2009
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Ben Elowitz retweeted
Many founders I know try to make it as easy as possible for investors to say yes. @sbyrnes does the opposite — and it works.
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Episode 10 of Raiser's Edge hosted by @elowitz with guest @sbyrnes is out now! open.spotify.com/episode/7v9…
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Founders are told to project confidence in every investor meeting. Tushar Garg raised $210M+ by sharing what wasn't working instead. Ep 10 of Raiser's Edge 👇
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3/ The “secret” behind Tushar Garg’s fundraising? Relationships, not transactions. He’d quietly built trust with investors for years—so when things got wild, his network was ready to step up.
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You're talking the whole time.
Your investor? Silent.
Stefan Kalb explains what you're probably missing—and why that moment matters more than you think.
open.spotify.com/show/6jUhW3… #RaisersEdge
Ben Elowitz retweeted
Your pitch is brilliant in the room.
Then you leave.
Stefan Kalb explains what happens next—and why it matters more than the 30 minutes you just spent.
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🚀 Thread: The REAL Secrets to Fundraising – Lessons from a Founder Who Raised $100M+ 🧵
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youtu.be/d-yM2_dMtdc New episode of Raiser's Edge just dropped! Our host @elowitz chatted with @stefankalb, 3x founder & investor who has raised $119M+ (including being preempted for his latest $8M round)
Rejected in 9 minutes by Doug Leone 😳
Early in BetterCloud's journey, @DavePolitis thought a $50–100M business would be a huge success.
The problem? That’s not what top VCs are looking for.
If you don’t tell a big enough story, no one’s investing.
#startup #founder
I wonder if this would play a bit easier if it weren’t named SVB, and instead were named “Main Street Bank of Small Business”.
Ben Elowitz retweeted
Shocking stat: 57 senators who voted to convict Trump represent 76.7 MILLION more Americans than 43 senators who voted to acquit
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The stuff I've heard in the last 72 hours—from members of Congress, law enforcement friends, gun shop owners, MAGA devotees—is absolutely chilling.
We need to brace for a wave of violence in this country. Not just over the next couple of weeks, but over the next couple of years.
Ben Elowitz retweeted
If a president is not impeached and removed from office for seeking to overthrow the government of the United States in order to remain in power, I don't know what the Framers of the Constitution meant by impeachment.
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!!!!! "Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it." @moonalice on platforms role in facilitating insurrection and what comes next.
wired.com/story/opinion-plat…
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A huge thank you to all of the journalists from so many news organizations who were in and around the Capitol today, serving as the public's eyes and ears on a momentous day.
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So Trump has access to the nuclear codes but he can't Tweet or post to Facebook.
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An epidemiologist, an ICU doctor and a scientist all walk into a bar.
I’m just kidding, they know better.
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Tonight the President of the United States used the American military to shoot peaceful protestors with rubber bullets & tear gas them.
For a photo op.
This is a horrifying use of presidential power against our own citizens, & has no place anywhere, let alone in America. Vote.
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Blue Nile and Wetpaint founder @elowitz joins @MadronaVL as co-managing director
geekwire.com/2018/blue-nile-…
