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0:33Recap of Part 1: Why investors back people, not businessesAl Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Simon Berger: Can I sell it to you? So I said, yeah, yeah, come on, John. He said to me— so he looked at me, came up to the deEP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 0:33–2:594:04What investors are really looking forAl Elliott: So what are investors looking for? The first thing is entrepreneurship. Obviously, they want to make sure people can entrepreneur well. Um, secondly, they're looking for people leadership. They want to find rEP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 4:04–4:3914:25Sarah on purpose-led investing & accidental activismLeanne Elliott: Sarah also shared how her personal values and purpose-led investments have shaped her career and decisions as an investor Sarah Chen Spellings: I've always been a feminist, but I guess I became an accidenEP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 14:25–17:5017:50The famous-yet-unknown deal that changed everythingAl Elliott: So let's look at one of the, one of the, probably one of the most famous and also at the same time not famous, um, acquisitions, which was WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook, now Meta, uh, probably about EP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 17:50–19:4119:41The 4 things VCs and acquirers are looking forAl Elliott: Okay, so just to recap then, the 4 things that, um, either companies looking to acquire or VCs are looking for is, is there some kind of entrepreneurship And that's pretty obvious. Uh, if you've seen Dragon'sEP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 19:41–20:5120:51Overcoming bias in business & investmentSarah Chen Spellings: I believe women need to be recognized and given opportunities and earning those opportunities equally, politically, socially, and economically, right? And that goes— those are broad statements into EP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 20:51–28:3046:07Get your house in order: preparing for due diligenceLeanne Elliott: Number 2, get your house in order. In almost every business, as we've heard, investors, acquirers buy people, and that's why there is an earnout. If you are, you know, the, the leader of that incoming acqEP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 46:07–49:4812:57What investors look for in a businessLeanne Elliott: When you have guests of this caliber, we can't possibly leave anything out. So yes, let's dive in and hear a bit more on our investors. We will be hearing from Melissa a little bit later on in this episodEP 27 · 22 Feb 2023·other· 12:57–16:4121:58Sarah on investing in women-founded companiesLeanne Elliott: When you invest in women, you're in good company. You know, that's really a tagline that my co-founder Shelley coined. But the reality is that, of course, you know, as I said, women are outperformers. TheEP 27 · 22 Feb 2023·other· 21:58–27:3827:59Simon on backing people, not just plansLeanne Elliott: Braveheart Al Elliott: Braveheart. Yeah, Braveheart. He looked a bit like him. Anyway, I met him. In a hairdresser's salon where he was having his long Scottish locks done. Um, and the guy said, I want yoEP 27 · 22 Feb 2023·other· 27:59–31:59
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