I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.
After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach.
Were we solving the right problem?
What were we doing wrong?
Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?
Were we the right team to build this?
We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem.
Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round.
That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.
We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors.
We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage.
Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper.
And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.
And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.
So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then:
Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process
(because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder).
So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.
Here's what you are getting:
• The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C)
• 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI
• A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually)
• An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)
Want access?
• Like and share this post
• Comment "FUNDRAISE"
• Follow me so I can DM you the link
I'll send it over ASAP.
P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.
I MADE A VOICE AI AUTOMATION AGENT FOR A REAL ESATE AGENT THAT MADE THEM $43,000
Literally created this bot in 20 mins with n8n
Want a Doc + workflow on how to do it?
RT, Like & reply "AI” and I’ll DM it to you
(Must follow for dm)
the creator who's banking $47K monthly from TikTok asked me not to share this automation...
these brain-rot style videos are pulling 10M+ views consistently on TikTok and YouTube Shorts
faceless channels are banking $15K-$50K monthly from this exact format
here's what my n8n workflow does automatically:
- generates viral Peter Griffin & Stewie conversations
- clones their actual voices using AI
- overlays them on Minecraft parkour gameplay
- adds perfectly timed subtitles
- renders complete videos ready to upload
these videos exploit dopamine triggers
the background gameplay keeps viewers glued while the AI-generated dialogue delivers the actual content
it's psychological manipulation at its finest
I spent 40+ hours perfecting this:
- gathering rare audio samples for voice cloning
- training custom AI voice models for both characters
- building the complete automation workflow
- testing render quality and timing
the results speak for themselves
channels using this format are going from 0 to 100K followers in weeks
some are hitting 50M+ monthly views with zero effort after setup
the workflow handles everything:
-content ideation
-script generation
-voice synthesis
- video composition
- final rendering
you literally press one button and get viral-ready content
while everyone's still manually editing videos, smart creators are scaling with automation like this
the opportunity window is MASSIVE right now
these formats are exploding across all platforms
Comment "VIDEO" + repost this + follow me (MUST DO ALL) and I'll send you the complete JSON file plus setup guide
a lot of people will ingore this and last yet another occasion to finally make it
don't sleep on it.
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@lolitataub Super lukewarm. They had a portfolio conflict so conversation didn’t go far. But I recall the ceo of honest is the founder of BAM. If you find a better connect go for it, otherwise can intro u to the partner I pitched to