Claire Tomkins, founder of Future Family, shares her journey of raising over $500M and emphasizes the importance of embracing conflict and fostering.
Claire Tomkins, founder of Future Family, shares her journey of raising over $500M and emphasizes the importance of embracing conflict and fostering authentic team communication as a leader. She highlights the resilience needed for fundraising, including over 100 Zoom pitches during the pandemic.
And I think it was what Carol said, which is the soft stuff is harder than the hard stuff. Meaning it is really the people dynamics and the communications that in many ways can be harder for us. We might be very technically proficient, good at building Excel models, understand the business mechanics. But when you do a startup, the G-forces are really are real. and your ability to have real conversations, not just like, "Oh, I think we should do this and maybe we should pivot that direction and maybe this market." Real conversations. How I feel. I'm scared. I'm worried you're not delivering. Are we in alignment?