Missed Calm Investment

Ryan Begelman shares a story about missing out on early investment opportunities, particularly with the meditation app Calm.

"There's so many entrepreneurs including the guys at Calm that I met through Summit early on. For whatever reason I didn't persist and get the ability to invest in their company. It was mentioned, but I missed the email, a friend of mine heard about it, I wasn't at the right event when they were raising, I met them 3 months earlier.

Now I can't even talk to them anymore because they became too big a deal to even return my calls. I would have liked to have been on the ride with them financially. That would have been really exciting."

The story illustrates a common theme among early networkers - meeting successful founders before they hit it big, but missing the opportunity to invest due to timing or circumstance.