I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

World Athletics says it will give every gold medal winner at Paris Olympics 50,000 dollars. Becomes first sport to do so for Olympics. Will be interesting to see IOC response …

World Athletics has appointed Jamie Fox as Director of Communications following a worldwide recruitment process which began in March this year.

I know wavelights are polarising but I thought they added a real presentational value to Kipyegon’s WR yesterday. Being able to see exactly how far ahead of the record she was in real-time was a brilliant indicator of just how much she broke the record by.