Two Minutes on Tech | Issue #79
A funding announcement makes a great headline. It doesn’t tell you whether anyone actually needs what you’re building.
Raising money means someone is willing to bet on your business. That’s meaningful. But a bet is not a verdict.
Investors can believe in the founder, the market opportunity, or the potential of an idea that hasn’t been tested yet. None of those guarantees customers will show up, pay, or come back.
And that’s where founders can get caught out. Funding arrives, the team expands, development accelerates, and the business starts behaving as though the hardest questions have already been answered.
They haven’t.
What Would Still Be True Without the Funding?
Take the money out of the equation for a moment.
- Do customers have a problem urgent enough to solve?
- Have they demonstrated that through their behaviour, not just their enthusiasm?
- Is there evidence that the product delivers enough value for them to keep using it?
Those answers matter more than the size of the round.
Capital gives you resources to test your assumptions. It doesn’t make those assumptions true.
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What’s New in Tech
- Ramp hits a $60B valuation after raising $1.85B.The fintech company says more than 85,000 businesses use its platform, with annualised revenue exceeding $2 billion and positive cash flow.
- Qualcomm will cut jobs worldwide as part of a performance-focused restructuring. Notifications are expected to begin in November, but the company has not disclosed how many employees will be affected.
- Salesforce agrees to acquire Braze for $5.66B.The deal would bring Braze’s real-time customer engagement platform into Salesforce’s ecosystem, strengthening its marketing capabilities across email, mobile, and other digital channels.
- A Google Cloud outage disrupted banking and public-sector websites across the UK. The disruption affected services at Revolut and Lloyds Bank, among others. Google says services have been fully restored.
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