Anatomy of Angel Investing 2 | The Dumbest Idea in the world.

Bastian and I. Berlin 2009.
Bastian suggested YouTube. I resisted it massively. We had an hour argument over why it wasn’t a totally dumb idea. In the end, as desperation never does a good deal, we had no choice. £30,000 in, nothing appeared to be clicking.
I woke up the next morning. As dumb as it was, it was our salvation, Do or Die time. Bastian suggested it and I initially hated it. I was now 1,000% behind it.
It was game time. I then went on to spend the next 2 months running around (mostly in circles) applying, emailing and harassing any 10th degree connection I had (or didn’t have) at YouTube. No cigar. Every attempt entered voicemail (went no where).
Enter my angel. Bastian connected me with Dr Thomas Weymar the founder and CEO of Telepool, one of the largest independent film and movie distributors in Germany. An old school friend of Bastian’s father, he was ‘polite’ enough to spend a little time over the phone with me discussing the finer points of movie distribution and ...

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