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Ben Pfisterer

Oct 20, 2026

12:24
And so you walk into, I presume, a square peg, I don't know if I'm the first investor, but with Paul and what, pitch him straight
12:33
up? Well, this is where I sound a bit naive and a bit stupid, but I didn't actually go in there to pitch.
12:42
And in hindsight, I know that sounds stupid because there's only one reason you're sitting in a VC's office, apart from doing a podcast.
12:49
But so, yeah, well, my brother lives next door to Mike Starkey from Athena Home Loans.
12:55
And so he was talking about his brother and me starting my own business.
12:59
And Mike was like, oh, you should go meet these VCs.
13:01
I know a lot of VCs.

52 MINS LATER

64:34
So what does it look like now? There's no Officeworks, but then presumably you've still got – Inbound plus you're running some outbound, I presume.

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