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FG Breakfast: Building Vertical Saas Companies, Marketplaces and Fundraising

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Join us for a breakfast conversation with David Olk, currently the General Partner at Junction Venture Partners. Prior to co-founding Junction, David co-founded ShopKeep and ran the business day to day while raising close to $200m before it was acquired by Lightspeed. Before ShopKeep, he was Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at IAC and also co-founded Voray, a platform to help people build more authentic networks and grow their careers.

As a reminder, we start AT 8:30am

We'll talk about: 

  • Building and operating Vertical SaaS companies (ShopKeep)

  • Lessons learned from running Voray, a community and events marketplace

  • Tactics for finding product market fit as an early founding team

  • Sales motions, tactics and advice

  • The day to day challenges of operating a company

  • Advice on fundraising in the current market 

Get ready for a high energy conversation. Here's a quick preview of David, directly from his LinkedIn profile - "Starting a company is the hardest thing anyone can ever do. Primarily because you have to deal with a ton of useless hanger ons with terrible advice and VCs who can be the absolute worst: self important arrogant bros pumped out of ivy league’s schools that normally have opinions about things they know nothing about (ie, your brainchild or building a company themselves — most have never raised capital nor can operate themselves out of a paper bag)."

Breakfast and coffee will be provided. Thank you to our friends and sponsors at Capchase for hosting us! 

Reminder: FG Breakfast are an intimate conversation between our guest speaker and ~8-10 FG founders. It's a 90 min opportunity to ask questions and learn from those who have successfully scaled companies in a no BS environment.