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The Pitch

#110 HandsDown: The Accelerator Pitch

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Technology, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jenna Sereni believes the best product recommendations come from family and friends. That’s the genesis of her social shopping app, HandsDown. Her pitch starts out like normal - until the investors flip the script and start pitching back, sending HandsDown on an entirely new path.   Today’s investors are Jillian Manus, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell, and Neal Sáles-Griffin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Pitch Show Day 2 No. 3 Founders are always in pitch mode.

0:07.9

Pitching investors, customers, even randos in the elevator, they're trying to get someone,

0:14.3

anyone really, to trust their vision.

0:18.0

But in the pitch room, trust goes both ways.

0:21.6

And sometimes the investor is the one who needs to pitch the founder.

0:26.0

Today on the show, things start out pretty normal,

0:29.5

with founder Jenna Sereni pitching her app, where you shop with your friends,

0:34.2

until the investors flip the script and start to pitch her.

0:39.2

I'm Josh Mugeo, welcome to the pitch, where real-onchpreneurs pitch to real investors for real money.

0:46.6

And sometimes, the investors pitch back.

0:50.3

I'm Neil Salis Griffin, managing director here at TechSar Chicago,

0:53.5

and I'm happy to welcome me all to my city.

0:55.4

I'm Elizabeth Yen, and I'm a general partner at Hustle Fund.

0:58.3

I'm Charles Hudson, managing partner, precursor ventures.

1:01.2

I'm Phil Nadell, I'm the managing director of forefront venture partners.

1:05.2

I'm Jillian Manes, managing partner of structure capital.

1:13.3

The pitch for hands down is coming up after this.

1:17.3

Hi Harry.

1:18.7

Hello mate.

1:19.6

How'd you fancy in the big match?

1:21.4

Well, funnily enough, I've been at both training grounds this week,

1:24.2

from what I saw, and you didn't hear this from me,

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