I'm a little confused by the investors' feedback regarding Alex's pitch. Alex sounded very unenthusiastic during his pitch. He was much more understated than Capri Wheaton with Dressd.
Regarding Capri, Jillian commented [quoting from the transcript] "I didn't feel that energy of a true inspirer who's gonna just get everybody, you know, lifting the team and - I didn't see that.".
But why didn't Jillian use that same criteria for Alex's pitch? Alex sounded almost indifferent. Yet Jillian remarked, he had "smoldering brilliance". Maybe this is just because she didn't quite grasp the technology and defaulted to the boy-genius trope.
That's an interesting observation. They were definitely both nervous. I wonder if it has more to do with the businesses. Jillian obviously felt Dressd was a long shot because it's in a red ocean. Whereas Natrion was a long shot because it could be "the Holy Grail" so there was excitement about that prospect. Investors are making decisions based on many reasons and in Alex's case his business made up for his "unenthusiastic pitch". Thoughts?
Hi. Thank you so much for your comments. I completely understand that Dressd was a risky investment. But I would add the rest of Jillian's comments about Capri were a bit more personal than the feedback she gave about Alex.
Jillian's full comments about Capri were "Charles you're not going to want to hear this, but I didn't feel that energy of a true inspirer who's gonna just get everybody, you know, lifting the team and - I didn't see that. Women have a disadvantage of walking into a room, period, right away. And if you don't exude a level of sincere confidence and be able to put all your value out there, very succinctly, frontload this, I think that you are going to lose a lot of people."
I just feel like women are pulled in all directions to be this way or that way. If Capri had gone in too cocky then the investors probably would have said she's arrogant. I know Jillian is really supportive of women, but as a listener it seemed a little bit of a double standard.
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I'm a little confused by the investors' feedback regarding Alex's pitch. Alex sounded very unenthusiastic during his pitch. He was much more understated than Capri Wheaton with Dressd.
Regarding Capri, Jillian commented [quoting from the transcript] "I didn't feel that energy of a true inspirer who's gonna just get everybody, you know, lifting the team and - I didn't see that.".
But why didn't Jillian use that same criteria for Alex's pitch? Alex sounded almost indifferent. Yet Jillian remarked, he had "smoldering brilliance". Maybe this is just because she didn't quite grasp the technology and defaulted to the boy-genius trope.
That's an interesting observation. They were definitely both nervous. I wonder if it has more to do with the businesses. Jillian obviously felt Dressd was a long shot because it's in a red ocean. Whereas Natrion was a long shot because it could be "the Holy Grail" so there was excitement about that prospect. Investors are making decisions based on many reasons and in Alex's case his business made up for his "unenthusiastic pitch". Thoughts?
Hi. Thank you so much for your comments. I completely understand that Dressd was a risky investment. But I would add the rest of Jillian's comments about Capri were a bit more personal than the feedback she gave about Alex.
Jillian's full comments about Capri were "Charles you're not going to want to hear this, but I didn't feel that energy of a true inspirer who's gonna just get everybody, you know, lifting the team and - I didn't see that. Women have a disadvantage of walking into a room, period, right away. And if you don't exude a level of sincere confidence and be able to put all your value out there, very succinctly, frontload this, I think that you are going to lose a lot of people."
I just feel like women are pulled in all directions to be this way or that way. If Capri had gone in too cocky then the investors probably would have said she's arrogant. I know Jillian is really supportive of women, but as a listener it seemed a little bit of a double standard.
Yeah... I can see that for sure.