Learnings from our latest discussion with @VSwordH - on fundraising: After trying and failing to raise a series A in Europe over 5 months, Virgilio cold emailed one of the best funds in the world, Khosla Ventures, because they were contrarian, and didn’t follow the herd. They

Learnings from our latest discussion with

- on fundraising: After trying and failing to raise a series A in Europe over 5 months, Virgilio cold emailed one of the best funds in the world, Khosla Ventures, because they were contrarian, and didn’t follow the herd. They were thinking from first principles, science first. After a couple of hours, he got a reply from

, saying, ‘I’m really interested, let’s schedule a call tomorrow.' ‘It was the first time someone read our papers and wanted to discuss only that.’ After 3 days, the call with

was scheduled, and shortly after, they wanted to invest.