Learning To Pitch Yourself, Post-Prison

We shadow Defy Ventures for a day to see what we can learn from a group of entrepreneurial ex-cons pitching to a panel of VCs.

It's 3:07 p.m. on a balmy Thursday in January and about 120 people are shuffling into in a windowless meeting room in the basement of Draper University, a residential school for early stage entrepreneurs in downtown San Mateo, California. Audience members sitting down, mostly Draper students, are chatting and texting frantically while six non-students stand against the back wall, each with varying degrees of stress showing on their faces.

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