{"id":44828,"date":"2023-10-20T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/australian-in-global-pitching-final-asked-most-oddball-question-ever-heard-from-a-judge-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:38:59","slug":"australian-in-global-pitching-final-asked-most-oddball-question-ever-heard-from-a-judge-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/australian-in-global-pitching-final-asked-most-oddball-question-ever-heard-from-a-judge-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian in global pitching final asked \u201cmost oddball question ever heard from a judge\u201d – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first question Slidefish founder Neil Smith received after pitching at a recent global pitching event was one of the oddest the organiser\u2019s chief executive, Adeo Ressi, had heard.<\/p>\n
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Smith told StartupSmart<\/i> he was asked, after a 10-minute pitch that passed as a blur: \u201cWhat happens if Dropbox offers to buy your company for $75 million tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n
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He says that while he wasn\u2019t expecting the question, many document and presentation sharing start-ups such as his have been bought by Dropbox and more established companies in the past year or so.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy answer was we\u2019re still building out and there is a lot we want to do. We\u2019d consider it, but I\u2019m in no rush to sell personally,\u201d Smith says. \u201cThe discussion became that we\u2019d only reach 50 to 75 million before we\u2019d sell out, as though that\u2019s a really bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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