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How do you think leaders can lean into funding their vision?

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What did it take for you guys to actually get this off

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the ground and then not even that,

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to be where you are right now from here to Mexico

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and moving forward?

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Tell me more about how do you think leaders can

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lean into funding their vision from your examples?

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Yeah, I think funding is most underrated part

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of the whole entrepreneurship journey, I feel.

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There are many ways to do a business, right?

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Small businesses are very different.

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It's more about you having initial capital

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or your ability to take some loan or risk that part.

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And then you run into Silicon Valley businesses

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or the tech businesses, which are more about having

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the bigger vision and your ability to sell the world

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and raise initial money to take baby steps towards that.

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But what I kind of learned is the whole funding process

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or fundraising is very similar to sales.

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It's really similar to sales.

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In sales, you are selling to a customer.

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Here, you are trying to sell it to an investor.

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You are trying to convince with a very different agenda,

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motives, motivation aspects.

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But you need to take time.

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You need to separate a good chunk of time into that

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and iterate daily.

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You get feedback.

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You need to update your decks.

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You need to update information.

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And keep people posted about your progress.

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Everyone wants to invest into a story at this stage.

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We are in the very early stages.

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People are investing into you, your discipline,

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your ability to communicate, your understanding

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of the problem sector.

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Like it's really belief.

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Belief is nothing else, right?

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Yeah.

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Because there are a lot of great ideas.

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It's really people who make it execute.

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Like, will this person just quit in a year?

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He's just going to do a haywire?

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Like, how serious is he?

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It's like things like that, right?

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Just having the continuous thing going, right?

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Yeah.

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I think that is very critical to fund raising.

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And it never ends.

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Like, at least in the tech space,

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it gets bigger and bigger.

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And everything you did previously,

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you will learn more now that you are raising more capital.