The Human Side of Building
Conversations with founders and investors about what decides a raise.
Long-form interviews on how funding works and on the people on both sides of it. Every episode also runs as a written piece.
Episodes
Guests so far include a fund manager running a hundred million euros and investors who say on record what makes them pass.
The questions are the same ones the intake asks, which is why the archive doubles as the evidence base for the work.
Roel MessieFund CEO  | Eight months from first contact to money, with a memo, a committee and due diligence in between. What he watches for over that time, and what surfaces in a founder that was not visible at the start. | 1 h 04 Transcript |
| Mark BjornsgaardInvestor | Start from the because rather than the idea, and kill the hypothesis cheaply, again and again, before you raise. On ego and fear as the blockers nobody puts on a slide. | 52 min Transcript |
| Andrew ChongFund partner | Research the fund, match the mandate, and only then have the conversation. What an M&A background teaches you about how a founder answers when someone pokes a hole in the story. | 47 min Transcript |
Every conversation plays on its own page, and on Spotify and YouTube.
Be a guest
Put yourself in the spotlight.
If you fund founders or you have raised, the conversation runs about an hour and the questions are the same ones the intake asks. Guests get the recording, the transcript and the written piece to use as they like.
Start with a conversation. Forty-five minutes, free, and you'll know where you stand.
Book the intake the best match
Getting a founder ready to raise capital, and then running the investor roadshow alongside them.