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brought to you by American Express business. I'm Josh Muccio. Welcome to the pitch from Gimlet Media. On this show we capture real

entrepreneurs pitching real investors for real money. Late last year, we invited entrepreneurs to a studio in San Francisco.

Each founder came for one reason to try to raise money for their startup.

Hey, how we doing? George?

I'm Josh.

We followed the founders into the room

where they pitched to a panel of shrewd investors.

These are real companies, real investors,

making actual decisions to invest their money on the spot.

And we caught it all on tape.

On each episode, we're going to follow the story of a founder's pitch to investors,

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