EP 100 — Outlander VC's Paige Craig On Funding Defense's Black Sheep Before Anyone Else Will
Paige Craig built his first company by sneaking into Baghdad as a private citizen with a fake CNN badge, no government backing, and no contacts, starting with a $5,000 DARPA task and scaling to a $30M program within months. He sold that company and took everything he learned about operating in chaos into Outlander VC, where he writes the first check into founders before revenue, customers, or a real business model exists. His 38-principle framework for evaluating founders, developed after conversations with roughly 4,000 of them, is how he consistently finds the people tier-one funds pass on…
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