Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) profile picture

Senior Advisor and Chief Executive Partner

Santa Monica, CA
Joined May 2009
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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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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
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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)
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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.
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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-…
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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United.com is basically run by internet historians. You visit it and remember what the internet was like before it was good.
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Things you didn't know about $105 @ModernCuisine cookbook: Has great schmaltz