Steve Blank Podcast

Eight-time entrepreneur and three-school business professor Steve Blank shares the latest wisdom on startup creation.

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Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business
Thursday, 10 July, 2025

I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI startups they see are getting valuations that appear nonsensical. These conversations brought back a sense of Déjà vu from the Dot Com bubble (at the turn of this century), when if you didn’t have internet as part of your pitch you weren’t getting funded.