Inside a $184M private dinner with startup CEO's in Silicon Valley

**Join my FREE newsletter - https://wallstreetpaper.substack.com/ ** In this episode, you'll get a front row seat to a private founder dinner in San Francisco hosted by a venture capitalist managing $200M — where a founder who sold his company to a public company and a freshman dropout who raised $60M+ got real about building, fundraising, and starting over. Whether you're a founder figuring out pre-seed and seed fundraising or an investor looking for what separates good founders from great ones, this episode breaks it all down from a real conversation inside one of SF's coolest hacker houses. Stay tuned for next episodes where you'll see more entrepreneurial vlogs on investing in tech companies in search of my first billion dollar company. 📖 Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:45 Arriving at the SF Hacker House 2:50 Jessica Welcomes Everyone 3:50 Brandon Introduces the Panel 5:13 Panel Begins 5:58 What It Feels Like to Sell a Company (Deon of Forethought ai) 6:25 Dropping Out & Raising $60M+ (Eli of Posh) 7:50 Building a Company the Second Time Around 9:49 Audience Q&A — How to Think About Pre-Seed & Seed 12:10 The Power of Super Teams 13:30 How the Night Went & What's Next 14:09 10x Thinking — Closing Thoughts WHO AM I: I’m Brandon Bryant. I am a co-founder and partner at Harlem Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund. My number mission is to invest in founders building the next generational companies. Follow along on the journey!