Your first pitch needs work - use rejection as feedback

It was really clear in my mind that it was the future and I thought the investors were wrong, frankly. But investors also gave really helpful feedback... they would say, 'Oh, your market's not big enough,' and I would say, 'It's going to be huge.' And I'd add a new page in my pitch deck.

Every pitch should start in the middle of the action, like a thriller or like a drama, like Mission Impossible movies always start with Tom cruise doing some crazy shit in the middle of the job right before the job that the actual movie is about because it gets your attention.

If you are going to say that you're the only founder that could start this company, or you have this really unique insight, start there. Even though it feels like you haven't built up to it yet, or anything like that, you don't have to, you'll backfill all of that later.