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The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Technology, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We're now in a business climate transformed by Covid. And founders need help figuring out how to impress investors, find new customers, and connect with potential cofounders in this uncertain time. We wanted to help out. So we got investors Elizabeth Yin from Hustle Fund and Hunter Walk from Homebrew to hop on The Pitch hotline to take your calls. The Callers: Rebecca Colett, Calyxeum Graham Hawley, TRID Shwetha Maddur, Catalyst Bryan McGehee, GATR Coolers Jeff Walsh, Illuminent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, I'm Josh Muccio, and this is the pitch.
0:04.0	Right now is a strange time for startup founders.
0:08.0	The first rush of pandemic crisis is over,
0:11.0	but businesses are now trying to figure out how to handle the long haul of a business climate
0:16.4	changed by the coronavirus. So on our show today, founders call in for advice from investors Elizabeth Yin and Hunter Walk.
0:25.6	Hey.
0:26.6	Hello hello we're about to start giving advice.
0:31.0	Hello.
0:32.0	Hello. Hello.
0:33.0	Are you going to, you should sing your advice.
0:36.0	Elizabeth Yin is a familiar name on our show.
0:39.0	She famously invests in hilariously early startups and lots of them.
0:43.2	Her fund, hustle fund, is invested in over 200 companies.
0:47.4	Elizabeth, it was your idea to bring Hunter on.
0:51.2	To bring Hunter on the show. And now you have to get rid of him.
0:55.0	Why did you think Hunter would be good?
0:57.0	You know, I feel like a lot of Veece's kind of tap dance around things,
1:01.0	but, you know, Hunter is very good about getting to the crux of you know the issue or whatever it is but in a in a nice genuine way
1:09.9	I'm hard on the problem not the person. I'm honored to be here. I like giving advice.
1:15.8	Hunter Walk is with Home Brew VC and when Hunter's not investing in startups like
1:20.7	Angel List, Wealthfront, and Cheddar, you can find him on Twitter, dispensing
1:25.2	nuggets of VC wisdom and making jokes.
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