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The founder's mental well-being and mindset as crucial elements for business success. It covers topics like managing mental health, transforming negative self-talk, and finding "secret" ways to rejuvenate the founder's mind.
walk us through how the financings um you know happen and and then also that equity versus secondary >> we've uh we've uh we've raised money from some of the best uh funds uh globally right uh SEOA Norwest uh Wuk Pinkis uh Avdar Filter bunch of IMX Qualcomm right over the years so it's been a it's been a fairly uh liquid stock and the good thing has also been Other than the IPO, we've never used bankers for any fund raise. So, it's been mostly done uh uh done internally. And the one rule we would have was we would meet an investor or two uh every every week or two, right? I mean, don't keep meeting investors all the time. But, you know, spending an hour a week on something like that made a lot of sense, right? Because what we also realized was that investors are pretty smart people, right? the questions they ask also make you ponder whether you're building the business the right
way are you missing something some of that and so we would constantly meet meet investors every time we wanted to fund raise we would really close the round in the next 2 3 months right so uh and usually because we ended up reaching out to five six people uh from the cohort that was speaking to us over the last you know year two years whatever uh you typically have like even our series A was SEOA and Norway coming together, right? So uh now what that meant was they wanted more allocation which then would create space for you to have a secondary way that would help us was next time we really wanted to raise funds and and you know we would keep in touch with these guys once every 6 months you're in that city or they're over in your city you know just a quick update saying look hey here's where we are now right from where we were 6 months ago and uh and whenever we wanted to raise funds we
would have this thing that we would go to the five people who we liked and showed the most amount of you know conversations did a little bit of work themselves you know when we were not in a fundra mode right so now what that eventually meant was we didn't need to like have a banker and our fundraisers would be fairly