Welcome to “VCs Off the Record” podcast for startups and investors wanting brutally honest insight and info about raising capital or investing in startups. Truth hurts but a bad investment, bad investor meeting or getting ghosted by a VC hurts more. I’m your host Gayle (Gay-lä) Jennings O’Byrne, co-founder of the WOCStar Fund and champion for female entrepreneurs (pause) and we are “off the record!”