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"You start at the bottom with the interns, right? And the interns are trying to figure out, is this a deal? And they can only say no, they can't say yes, right? They can just say it looks interesting. If you get past the interns, and so the interns again, try and help you, "Hey, our company wants to understand revenue by channel, and a little bit more about more market size. "
So they'll help you do that. And then they'll push it up to junior administrators or junior associates. And they're tasked with collecting the actual info that these guys over here in the committee need to make a decision. And the big realization at this point is you are not going to be at this committee meeting when they decide whether to give you the money or the contract. This is where you want to be, this is where you want your deck to be, and this is where you wish you were going to be. But when this actual decision happens, you are not going to be there. And the reason, so you started somewhere in here, like at the executive level and you went, whoo, right? Who's experienced this? You got a good intro to a firm and they go, "Yeah, they really love this. Work with Prajeesh and Jim. And they're going to try and figure out what the f*** is going on here? I see you're nodding. You've experienced it.
 
Has anybody not experienced this? You haven't? Okay. But does it psychologically make sense? Because these guys want to make a million dollars a year, right? And ideally make $10 million on some unicorn-style things, right? If something's confusing, that's why they have all these guys and girls and people sitting around to help. You know, eventually, it'll get to like the executive level or the senior associate. These guys identify all the problems that we're going to try and fix here today.
 
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It’s the same problem in finance and in a product where we have this very interesting story to tell on the phone or on a Zoom call and then 100% of the time, they’ll go, ”Sounds great, send me something. ”

”𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭. 𝐎𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲, 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲. 𝐖𝐞’𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬...”

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