Most VCs won’t admit what actually moves a deal. FOMO does.
In this episode, I sit down with Stephane Nasser, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenVC - a free fundraising platform connecting 25,000+ founders with 6,000+ investors, with over $1B in funding facilitated since 2021.
Stephane has reviewed thousands of pitch decks and seen just about every mistake. His take is blunt..most founders aren’t lying, they just don’t know how to speak investor language.
We get into why investors respond to scarcity more than slides, why the best deals never hit a deck at all, and why Stephane built a platform that deliberately hides founder names from investors.
We cover:
Why FOMO moves deals faster than fundamentals
The pitch deck mistakes that kill deals before the first meeting
How OpenVC’s blind deal flow feature gets 95%+ open rates
Why warm intros still dominate, and how to engineer them
What “climbing the learning curve” actually means before you pitch
How storytelling is moving from decks to social media
Whether venture capital itself could be disrupted
If you’re raising Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A, or sourcing early-stage deal flow, this one’s worth your time.
