Aggressive Fundraising, Aggressive Recruiting

I sent out this tweet to an angel investor yesterday.

I am also fast losing interest in the idea that you have to roam the microfinance circles to recruit people for a microfinance startup. Most people in microfinance have this won't-change non profit worldview that they wear like religion. That drives me impatient.

Maybe the best people for a for profit, high tech microfinance startup are in finance and tech, not in microfinance.

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