You don’t know until you asked for it. That sounds very obvious but we forget this very often. I remember this again after our yesterday ClubHouse chat.
I hosted a very interesting talk yesterday with my friend Ali Jamal who is a growth/product person who worked at very cool companies and now also running his angel investing firm (First Check Ventures). While we are doing with Q&A, someone asked him “How did you get 750+ LPs?” (Limited Partners, pretty much people who are investing along with Ali)
He said: I went to a good school (Stanford) and also worked for very good companies in Silicon Valley and other places. I know the right people. But most importantly I asked my friends or friends of friends “Would you be interested in being part of my firm?”.
As he said, if you don’t ask for it, you never know what is going to be the answer. We scared so much to hear “No”. Honestly, No is a good answer. At least they spent time and answered for it.