Fictional demo · Term Sheet Live
Eighteen months later
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We pulled the data ahead of this episode. Your number was low, not high.
I know. I sandbagged it to be polite.
Of that 2024 cohort, sixty-two percent didn't raise again. It wasn't cynicism, it was arithmetic, and the arithmetic was generous.
Any thank-you notes?
Two, actually. Both from founders who shut down early and kept the money to try again.
Source details and provenance
- Recorded in the fictional scenario
- Jun 23, 2026
- Published in the fictional scenario
- Jun 25, 2026
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