Background: AR/VR/Computer vision/ML/virtual production film production,. Started a consulting firm, grew from 5->30. Big clients: Google, amazon, etc.. Lots of smart consultants, market strategy. Advise startups in AR/VR. One had a $100 Million exit. Board member, board observer, advisor. Follow up on Twos. Currently capped on bandwidth. Intros: might be too early. Bounce ideas when it's helpful. Early to be qualitatively useful. Pre-revenue. How pre-revenue? How long to revenue?. Connects VC to startups. Has connections at Sequoia scouts, Greycroft, Accel partners. TAM, SAM, monetization, trajectory, sick slide, early VCs. Technology background: product management, IDE, but wouldn’t tell anyone lol. Leading global strategy for Lenovo. Send John pitch deck. Humble about knowledge in the knowledge management software space. Notion has API, brand, ecosystem, community. Look for advisors in knowledge management space. Research how companies in the knowledge management space get valuations and how they scale. Look for angels who can offer us advice and guidance on top of money. Lotta money looking for a home. Tiger global, looking at velocity. Get out and get money, get users, find advisors in our space. Being a venture backed startup is not always the best play, a lot of advantage being in market. 5-8 calls with China. Board observer for a company raising series A, raised a couple mill for seed. Be careful: everyone wants to be an advisor, who will be useful, what can they contribute. There is value in having a board while raising. John Iaia on the board, guys that trust, arbitrary proxy for trust,. Distill down ask, who? what? why?, advisor vs money, qualification. Discrete ask for an investor and advisor