'You work 80+ hours a week on fundraising and of course it's tough when people pass on you but it's important to not let it get to you.'
This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article,Tim Ellis is the CEO of Relativity Space, a company that 3D prints rockets with the objective of going to Mars.
"I don't think our age was a factor for investors. This is such new technology and we're trying to lead in it," Ellis told Business Insider in an interview.That's the key takeaway for making it as a startup founder according to Tim Ellis, the 29-year-old CEO of Relativity Space, a company that 3D prints rockets with the objective of going to Mars.
"You've got to be creative to get in front of the right people, there is research that shows the more relentless you are the more successful you are likely to be," Ellis told Business Insider in an interview."You can't take 'no' personally, you have hustle wherever possible to make people believe in you."but also managed to get a meeting with Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr, an investor in Google, Twitter, and Uber, simply through being persistent.
"You work 80+ hours a week on fundraising and of course it's tough when people pass on you but it's important to not let it get to you and learn the lessons from that," Ellis added. Following Cuban's investment in 2015, Relativity Space has raised $45 million from Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Playground Global.
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