Another FKA Friday ● 24 June 2022#21

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24 June 2022 #21 818 Thank you, Jonty, for hosting our pitch nights at KPMG! Tuesday was another great night! Our best wishes go to Jo from Fuel50 and Lane from Chatterize who had to give their apologies due to sickness and accident. ? Kylie from SeaLogs gave a great update and had to endure an in-depth Q&A session as the only presenter.  Patrick from ProfitWell has shared this great docu with early supporters. WATCH  So good—that Julian! He grabs the hot potato by the horns!? More HERE!  ‘Focus or die’: lessons from New Zealand’s fastest-growing company. LEARN Every year Suse and the crew at AANZ lay on an Angel Summit and every year we try to come up with a new promo gif. Be the early bird! The worm is hiding here! Tim and his orange crew at Ambit have secured a US/NZ-VC since he first pitched in August last year. He has signed Australian and Canadian accounts, also NZ Post. ARR up at $1.7m from $1m during Covid. Join the Investor briefing, Wed, 29 June, 16:00. RSVP Turbulent times—runway challenges and more. Adapting to Endure, Sequoia How nontraditional VCs are reacting to market headwinds! Pitchbook Report + XLS 5/ It starts from the top. Zuck showed up to work in Jan '09 wearing a tie, and he wore it every day for an entire year. His message to the company: “it's time to get serious about our business.” Every time we walked into a meeting with Mark, we were reminded things had changed 6/ Reset the team. In the middle of covid I addressed the exec team of a travel start-up whose revenue dropped to zero overnight. I encouraged them to re-evaluate their team. Some people step up in a crisis - they are your future leaders. Others will jump ship - good riddance Full Twitter Threat At our Tuesday pitch night, we had some crypto confessions. THIS clip is funny! Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.