The Setup
Setting the scene
You walk into a conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows and six people who control more capital than you will see in a lifetime. Your laptop is open, your deck is loaded, and your mouth is dry.
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The Partner Meeting
→Ten minutes to convince a room of skeptics that your vision is worth millions. Navigate the highest-pressure presentation of your life.
Part of the quest
Fundraising
→Raising money is a skill, not a personality trait. Learn to pitch, negotiate terms, and build investor relationships while maintaining your vision and sanity. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the cold intro to the no that teaches — practicing the decisions that matter most when the pressure is real and the stakes are personal. This isn't theory. It's practice for the moments that define how this chapter of your life unfolds.
What you'll learn from The Setup
This scenario focuses on Setting the scene — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Partner Meeting, a full interactive story inside the Fundraising quest.
Skills you'll build in Fundraising
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The first hard question lands three slides in — they are poking at your unit economics and the numbers do not tell the story you rehearsed. Pivot or defend.
A senior partner leans back and says the five words every founder dreads — 'We have seen this before.' Your differentiation story just became the most important sixty seconds of the meeting.
The meeting is almost over and they ask what you need. This is the moment — ask too high and you seem delusional, ask too low and you seem unsure. Name your number.
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