Not long ago, there was this massive TikTok craze on sea shanties. And while I don’t have a TikTok account, the ripple effects have reached me as well. What started as a shower thought after a founder recommended I gamify my advice to founders fundraising, well… turned into this. To the tune of Soon May the Wellerman Come:
There once was a team that put to sea
The name of that team was Friends ‘N Me
The winds blew hard, but growth tipped up
O’, burn that midnight oil (huh)
Soon may the investor fund
To bring us money and help and some
One day, when the term sheet’s done
We’ll take the dough to grow
She had not been two years from start
When push became the pull we sought
The founder called all hands and wrought
The product to scale now (huh)
Soon may the investor fund
To bring us money and help and some
One day, when the term sheet’s done
We’ll take the dough to grow
The servers’ now a right real mess
We had to call the AWS
They had us pay for more bandwidth
But that’s okay with us (huh)
Soon may the investor fund
To bring us money and help and some
One day, when the term sheet’s done
We’ll take the dough to grow
We’ve tripled our growth last year, oh yus
With dollar retention as one cause
When we were asked what it was
We said ’twas one twenty (huh)
Soon may the investor fund
To bring us money and help and some
One day, when the term sheet’s done
We’ll take the dough to grow
We’ve ten cust’mers that five of which
Are referenceable you’ll find on pitch
That one of which is kinda rich
They’re paying hundy K (huh)
Soon may the investor fund
To bring us money and help and some
One day, when the term sheet’s done
We’ll take the dough to grow
Photo by Katherine McCormack on Unsplash
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