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James Nguyen: How I Raised $25M With Zero VCs
James Nguyen was my banker at RBC. Now he runs Quantropi, a quantum security company in Ottawa that raised over $25 million US with no VCs. Just angels. Just people who trusted him.
He told me nobody drops millions on a phone call. You spend ten years earning that call. That hit home. I got laid off in 2014 and built two seven-figure firms the slow way. James explains why reputation is the real fundraise, how a banker with zero physics background got his name on a quantum patent, and why he's staying in Canada to build it.
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