Tech Brew Ride Home - Startups! Send Your Pitch Decks (And How ANY Listener Can Participate)

Episode Date: September 26, 2021

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On April 4th, 2023, around 2 in the morning, a man was found stabbed multiple times on a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco. Hey, who did this to you? What happened next turned the story into a political firestorm. Reports have identified the victim as Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App. From Bloomberg Podcasts, this is Foundering, the Killing of Bob Lee, beginning April 16. Are you looking to raise a seed or series A round? Would you like to have the Mutant Podcast Army on your cap table? If so, send your deck via email to Brian at Ride Home Fund.com, because the Ride Home Fund would love to talk to you about that. Heck, if you're doing a Series B, Series C, series whatever, with big names already on board,

but you also want to have the Mutant Podcast Army behind you as well, Brian at Ridehomefund.com. Let's chat. by the way, you don't have to be the founder or CEO yourself. This message is going out to anyone who works at an early stage startup. Get your boss to send us their deck. I've got a couple irons in the fire here already, but you have the rare chance right now to be our first fund investment, something that you can bet I will be shouting from the rooftops about. And that's what I think the right home fund can offer you if you're a startup looking to raise around. We offer you a chance to tell your story. When you announce your Series A, you can get your write-up in TechCrunch like everybody else with a few sentences about your vision and your unique product market fit. But what if you could also come on here for a bonus episode and introduce yourself to 55,000 of the most connected technologists anywhere? The Ride Home Fund is very much the early stage fund of the Ride Home podcast community. Even if they're not investors, the audience of this podcast could become your fans. Make our Mutant Podcast Army your Mutant Podcast Army, four times a year.

when I write the fund memo to LPs. We'll also do a fun memo bonus episode on this podcast where you can come on and share updates because I'll be coming on to share updates about the fund and our portfolio companies, standing offer to come on the Twitter spaces with Chris and I as well. And always this podcast could be a platform for you to break news about new products or new rounds or whatever. But maybe you're not looking for a public megaphone so much. No worries. We still want to work with you because we can still be of use to you. If you have asks like hires or partnerships or introductions or whatever going forward, we can always do classified ads at the end of podcast episodes. But also, this is a rolling fund. This is not like a $100 million traditional fund with a bunch of

pension funds and university endowments behind it with their money, but not a lot of help to you as a startup. You can think of a rolling fund as a sort of angel fund on steroids. all this week, all of the LPs when they subscribe and sign up to the fund, they share notes with me about who they are. And I can tell you, we have got pre-IPO employees from everything from Google to square to Coinbase as our LPs. We've got rock star engineers who have built products that you use every single day. We've got folks who have been doing angel investing for 20 years. Heck, one LP is a super impressive leader who said he's looking for his next gig. and I told him, maybe we'll find it in the fund? What if I could get you your headline-making

CTO hire? The LPs, they're going to be involved in the investing process with the right-home fund. I'll be the one making the final decisions on investments, of course, but it won't just be my eyes on this. I intend to involve the LPs in the due diligence. This is, again, not a traditional fund run like an autocracy. The point of doing this from day one was to leverage the unique collection of the most plugged-in technologists that the podcast has accumulated over the years. If you work with us, it'll be like having a collective, a syndicate of super angels behind you and on your cap table. So send me your pitch deck. Again, Brian at ridehomefund.com. Doesn't matter what industry, what niche, business model, or space you're in. Just send me your

details and let's chat. And even if you're not a startup founder, even if you're not an LP in the fund, Even if you're not working at a cool new startup, if you just know about a cool new startup, and you're a listener to this show, guess what? You can be involved as well. If you help us get in on a great deal, I will share Kerry with you. Anyone, if you don't know what carry is, Google carried interest venture capital to find out. But the bottom line is, you'll be able to get a piece of the upside of a deal if you help us get that deal, and you don't have to invest a dime of your own money. You don't have to be an accredited investor. If you get us in on a deal, all you have to do is sign up for an Angelist account, and I put you down as a Kerry participant on that particular deal.

Now, you can't earn Carrie just by sending me an email address. You have to kind of actually know the folks in question, at least well enough to get me a phone call with them. I'm talking meaningful introductions, not just, hey, there's this startup you should try, and here's their Twitter handle. But if you do do this, again, this is leveraging the audience. This is. This is. is crowd collective investing. Any one of you, 55,000 folks listening to me right now can help us get a deal and participate in the fund and share in any potential upside. So that's it. Any and all ideas, intros, pitch decks, please send them to brian at ridehomefund.com. As I say, I have two different things in the hopper right now that might turn out to be our first investments that I hope to crow

about soon, but you still have the chance to preempt that and have your idea, your company, be the first fund investment that is made, get in touch. And if you want to invest in the rolling fund, our doors are wide open, and they always will be. Again, this is a rolling fund. You have up until December 1st to get your money in the pool that will be investing in our Q4 deals. But as long as our doors are open, you can always put your money in at any time, quarter after quarter, Just check out ridehomefund.com to apply.