What Makes a Founder Worth Backing at Pre-Seed? With Ilana Elbaz | GTM at Deel
Episode Summary
Ilana Elbaz was employee number five and the first go-to-market hire at Deel, helping scale the company from its early pivots through blockchain and payments to a business she helped grow from zero to hundreds of millions in ARR in just a few years. She's now an active angel investor and runs Deel's global pitch competition, which received tens of thousands of applications this year.
In this episode, Cheryl and Maxine unpack how operating inside one of the fastest-scaling companies in the world shapes the way Ilana evaluates founders as an investor. She breaks down her "3-star…
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