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If you're a founder, this is the important lesson, if you raised venture capital before and your team your team is made up of the people who raised venture capital and failed before, you're like level one in terms of fundable. Then if you had an exit and you returned your, you know, if you return people's money back plus a little bit, you're like level two. If you had a great return and you returned a lot of their money back, they had a great exit. Now you're like level three. And if you IPO'd or you had, like, a billion dollar sale, now you're like level four. So if you just, like, look at those levels of founders, level zero is you you're just new to the game. Okay. Go to Y Combinator, Launch Accelerator, Antler, Techstars, etcetera. But once you've raised venture capital before, now you can go to venture capitalists and say, hey. Remember when I lost $4,000,000 trying to do this crazy pendant company and it didn't work? Well, now I've got a better idea, and here's what I learned from my pendant company. And, you know, just putting the first two stories together, that actually makes you more more fundable. This Week in Startups is brought to you by AWS Activate. AWS Activate helps startups bring their ideas to life. As you build and scale your business, activate credits grow with you to support your changing needs. Apply to AWS Activate today and receive up to $100,000 in credits. Visit aws.amazon.com/startups/credits. Lemon.io, hire pre vetted remote developers and get 15% off your first four weeks of developer time at lemon.io/twist. And Squarespace, turn your idea into a beautiful website. Go to squarespace.com/twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. It's Monday. It is September 29. The summer is over, folks. And soon, it'll be snowing, and you will be getting Halloween costumes, Thanksgiving dinner, and putting up Christmas ornament or ornaments. Oh my god. How did this happen? I just it's like the starter's pistol. The only good news for me when the fall comes, you know what that is? What's that, Jason? My Knicks. My Knicks are playing in UAE, and, I got invited by many people in The UAE to sit courtside because I am a micro celebrity, as you know. My my celeb I'm a micro celebrity, a mini celeb. And so people invite me to sit courtside if they can't get an actual celeb. So they, you know, they'll start with Timothee Chalamet and go to Ben Stiller and, you know, maybe Ben Stiller, Timothy. I don't know. It's whatever your bag is. Maybe a Kardashian. And then they'll go down, and, eventually, they'll invite me when they when they before they sell their tickets. I'm like the last before they put them …