{"id":92059,"date":"2026-08-05T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/fundraising-isnt-the-finish-line\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:44:47","slug":"fundraising-isnt-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/fundraising-isnt-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising isn&#8217;t the finish line."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, founders treat fundraising like a scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>SeatGeek CEO Jack Groetzinger sees it differently and in this episode of Build <!--more--> Mode he explains why.<\/p>\n<p>After raising nearly $400 million, he says capital is a tool, not a vanity metric. The goal isn&#8217;t to raise the most money. It&#8217;s to build the best business.<\/p>\n<p>He also shares what it was like trying to raise a round in 2020, when the entire live event industry shut down overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode here: <a href=\"http:\/\/spr.ly\/6057BEANEJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/spr.ly\/6057BEANEJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, founders treat fundraising like a scoreboard. SeatGeek CEO Jack Groetzinger sees it differently and in this episode of Build<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}