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Building Trust with Your Inception Investor

Posted on February 2, 2024April 1, 2024 by Mayfield

In the first episode of Fund/Build/Scale, Mayfield Managing Partner Navin Chaddha spoke about the need for founders to identify investors they can trust and why he’s specifically looking for inception-stage entrepreneurs with “half-baked” ideas.

Our conversation covered a lot of ground: Chaddha described the elements of a fundable idea, shared what excites (and unnerves) him about AI investing, and offered a framework for founder teams seeking solutions to orthogonal problems that create value for customers and align with market trends.

Available for download on February 7, 2024

Listen on Apple Podcasts, or read the full transcript.

Fundraising from Both Sides of the Table

Posted on February 2, 2024April 1, 2024 by Mayfield

Host Walter Thompson met with Jorge Torres at his company’s San Francisco HQ on a rainy afternoon, joined by Mayfield Partner Vijay Reddy, where we talked about early-stage fundraising from the founder and the investor’s perspective.

Jorge has been through the process three times, and Vijay is an experienced seed investor, so the three had a great conversation. If you’re curious about what a team needs in place before they put together a pitch deck and how founders can educate investors about the value of what you’re trying to produce, listen in.

Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or read the full transcript.