How to Get Investors to Say YES
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Sam Kim, Founder of Zerobase, and it went out on 21 February 2025.
Sam Kim went from a $10K debt and a crashed Maserati to launching more than 20 products and founding a startup school that accepts every founder. He explains the cold email strategy that landed a $1M investment and why most startups fail. The episode covers building without coding skills and the future of startup education and accelerators.
“Fail fast, launch faster. The only way to learn is by doing.”Sam Kim
- How a $10K debt pushed Sam into entrepreneurship.
- The cold email strategy that landed him a $1M investment.
- Why most startups fail, and how to avoid it.
- How he built a startup school that accepts every founder.
startup school, no-code, founder journey, cold email, accelerators, Zerobase