A few months back we did a call-in show.

Hello, this is Josh.

Hi, this is Tiffany Walling McGarrity.

I'm one of the three founders from Metapixel.

And you, our listeners, voted Tiffany Walling McGarity on Pitch Island.

Going from a phone call to the pitch room isn't an easy trick to pull off.

Today we'll hear a pitch, the likes of which we've never had on the show before.

What does a pitch sound like before any revenues, even before the product is built,

when all the founder has is an idea and a gut feeling that that idea could turn into a big business.

Today on the show, what a pitch sounds like when all you have are a few scratches on the back of the metaphorical napkin.

From Gimlet, this is the pitch.

I'm Josh Muccio.

Let's meet the investors.

I'm Maya Bitner.

Maya built two financial tech companies and sold them both.

Now she's out scouting startups for Sequoia,

one of the biggest VC firms in Silicon Valley.

I'm Elizabeth Yin.

Elizabeth is a managing partner at Hustle Fund,

and so far she's invested 30 million in over 250 startups.

One example, a company called Nerd Wallet.

I'm David Goldberg.

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