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Even though our business was exploding, I was struggling to fundraise. I didn't know a lot of investors. I'm a latinx woman building a femtech startup in New York City. Most of the investors I was meeting just didn't get it. #notfun. Matt took me under his wing & told me to pitch Unbound as a bet on feminism in the Age of Trump. He introduced me to over a dozen angel investors & VCs, including Cyan Banister at Founders Fund and the founder of Netflix. Suddenly, I was talking to people who understood what I was trying to do. The conversation totally changed, from no's to yeses.  I'm a practical idealist and an unlikely capitalist.  I got my start as a 911 paramedic in the Bronx and struggled to pay my way through college, where I was the poor kid in a world of one-percenters at Columbia University. I worked for a couple years as freelance journalist for the New York Times & Newsweek, then discovered entrepreneurship in the summer of 2008, just before the global economy Now, after 3 startups and a decade of struggle (including a close brush with personal bankruptcy), I've earned a small fortune and become an active angel investor with a portfolio of 21 startups. In the VC world, I'm what you call a high conviction filter in my hunt for great people. All investors have biases. I am biased in favor of people like me: poor, hungry, driven outsiders My most frequent co-investor is Cyan Banister at Founders Fund (she used to be homeless to make or break a company. When I really believe in a startup, I have to introduce them to investors with de*per pockets than I.  200x). In 2014, I sent Thumbtack to Andreesen Horowitz and told them to invest $100M; they pas*ed––whoops Guerrilla Capital is an extension of what I've been doing over the last half decade, transforming happenstance email chains into a social network for collective action. If it works, we'll be the financing engine for the next 50 years of social progress; if it doesn't, This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.