VC: Fundraising is brutal if your pitch isn't legible to the models
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-09-22
Investor Turner Novak notes that it has become "really hard to raise right now if what you're pitching isn't legible to the models" — absurd, he argues, because backing what models can't yet see is exactly what venture capital is supposed to be for.
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