Episode 1522

How VC diligence works at different stages + Fion's Sudarshan Sridharan on wildfire tech | E1522

0:00 Jason tees up today's Sunday edition of This Week in Startups!

2:02 Molly recaps her first half year of investing, then asks Jason about diligence at different stages of investing in different verticals

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11:40 Jason on great investments coming out of "prepared minds", the importance of testing and trying

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21:31 Molly welcomes Fion Technologies CEO Sudarshan Sridharan to discuss helping wildfire fighting with software and his founding story

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33:56 Sudarshan explains how the Fion app helps firefighters fight wildfires, pricing model, and more

41:06 The state of wildfires in the US, why Sudarshan is building Fion

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