Building Trust with Your Inception Investor

| Feb 2, 2024

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.

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