{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"This Meeting Could've Been a Podcast","title":"Josh raises a Series A (and becomes a monster)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2328,"description":"Season three Jess is not season one Jess. Same goes for Josh. Raising $10 million will do that to a person. \nJosh hits the road to raise Vector's Series A. Weeks later, he's back full of ideas. None of them related to Vector's actual business.\nWhile Josh is away, Jess and the leadership team stop waiting for permission. They figure out what to do without him. Turns out: they know what they're doing.\nBack on the investment front, Josh sends a telegram. Complete ye olde English prose from a plane at 3 am.\nHear how Josh used the whispering game, a New York meeting slot he hadn’t booked yet, and high school lunch table vibes to get through the roadshow.\n\nGet to the good stuff:\n[00:00] Josh returns from the investment roadshow with three groundbreaking business ideas, all of them “great.” Sigh.\n[02:24] The raise isn't the win your LinkedIn feed thinks it is — why Josh resisted until he couldn't.\n[04:02] Jess explains how they gathered customer feedback for the raise three months after a hard pivot. Alex said I've got this... and delivered.\n[07:30] Jess coined the phrase Deep Ass Financial Dive (trademark pending), and yes, it is exactly what it sounds like.\n[09:57] Churn versus Optics: Josh admits letting optics win for the fundraising window.\n[11:57] Josh explains how having the biggest quarter in company history changes the room.\n[13:10] Fundraising sucks. Josh does not recommend… kind of.\n[15:22] Josh’s investor playbook: practice reps, whisper campaigns and an imaginary New York slot.\n[20:46] Dad is out of the house. Jess learns to stop asking for permission.\n[24:01] Jess starts feeling like Josh is at war. Josh sends her a telegram from the fundraising front... in ye olde English.\n[26:00] Josh turns Fridays into grenade drops. We need to become an agency. AI is replacing us all. Something else about AI. Goodbye.\n[28:30] Affirmations break. Live, laugh, lower CAC.\n[29:05] The $10 million question… why SignalFire and HubSpot Ventures said yes.\n[33:33] Jess and Josh...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nANzXJDcDnwX9OR5nzo8zqG5w2ETTdTJ8zTsMRh1U2Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMGFl/Y2YxMzUzNjhkZWMx/MjUxZWYwNzMxNGE1/YTQxNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}