Hey, what's up everybody? Ryan here. And I'm taking my own advice in this episode because I'm just sharing with you, me documenting the experience. So I recently had a chat with some interested parties who are considering backing the capitalism.com fund.

I'm raising a fund right now to invest in some of the deal flow that comes from my students.

And the overall idea is we have these students who have built successful businesses

or businesses that I think could be really exciting and successful.

And most of the people in this internet e-commerce world don't have financial backing

and don't have strategic advice and don't have all the resources that exist within my

slash my partner Sam's network.

And so we decided to combine resources and raise a fund and bring our

network and our opportunities to make available for entrepreneurs that we want to support.

And so I've never done a fund before. I've never pitched investors on why they should invest in other people's businesses.

I've only ever done one raise before and it was for a business I was buying.

So this was really new to me and this was kind of my first go at, I guess you might call

it pitching investors, although I don't feel like I pitched it. I was just

kind of explaining our thesis. So I just thought it would be fun to share with you so you could

see that, you know, I didn't plan for this. I didn't have notes. It doesn't have to be complicated.

So I just wanted to share this experience with you.

If you listen to this and you want to participate in this, you can just submit an inquiry form over at capitalism.com slash fund.

All that does is put you on our radar and let me know that you're interested in having a conversation.

All right.

I hope you

enjoy this, and I really hope this gives you permission to just go for it even if it doesn't feel

planned, because we had a lot of fun talking about a fund. All right, enjoy.

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