"If this startup crashes and burns and doesn't work, what are you going to do next? It's really important for me to know that they don't already have a concocted plan B... there is no plan B. There's just a new plan A."

Investors pass because of the business because that's what they say. But they're really passing because of you and that's okay. It's a harsh reality.

"If you can relentlessly demonstrate the most authentic version of yourself and you are the leader that you think you are, the right things will show up. The gravity and the magnetism of that energy will carry forward because we're instinctual creatures. We feel first and then we think second."

"How you do one thing is how you do everything. And I think that if you're thinking that you can just go the sort of like very wide, unpersonalized approach to cold emailing, like you've already failed."

"If you can't tell me what you're doing in the first slide and I don't understand it, it's probably a bad deal or I'm too stupid to get it anyway."