Would you have funded Theranos?
Real startups pitch you in disguise: a one-drop blood test, a Wi-Fi juicer, strangers on air mattresses, a doorbell that the Sharks turned down. Open the diligence folders, back your hunches, then fast-forward ten years and see who they really were.
Everyone's watching You Can See Everything, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary, and asking how so many smart people fell for it. Your turn.
Choose your fund
1 · Read the pitch
Each founder pitches in the words of their era. No company names, and the year is the year you hear it.
2 · Spend diligence
Open folders: try the Demo, check the Team, call the Market. Tokens are scarce, like real time.
3 · Write the cheque
Pass, or invest $250K, $1M or $2.5M. Ten years later the true stories come out, along with your investor type.
Pitch
Keyboard: D demo · T team · M market · P pass
Who were they, really?
$10M
Fund value, counted as each company's story comes out
Biggest miss
Worst cheque
Keep playing
Try the 60-second Boom or Bust round, read the Theranos File, learn the red flags or browse all the companies in the Ledger.