It's an exciting challenge.

I have actually sat in an investor meeting.

where the persuasion was 99% done and the entrepreneur made this bold claim and their head of engineering said, no, we can't do that.

We don't have enough data to prove that that's possible.

And the investor just went, poof.

Most overrated piece of advice ever.

Put the team slide as the 17th slide in the deck.

who you build the team with, and how you talk about the problem all need to be right before you walk into the room.

Yeah,

it's close enough.

Close enough, yeah.

Not quite right.

I was working as an engineer, a self-taught computer engineer.

My wife and I both worked for the same company, and we both felt like we'd come to a dead end.

And so our boss at the time, a guy called Peter Ball, who I love dearly and who's a serial entrepreneur, paid for a personal development course.

Right.