DISPATCH #1: The Capacity Blind Spot — Why Most Founders Aren’t Ready for the Capital They’re Chasing
Field Notes from VPB Podcast Episode #1
Most founders think they have a funding problem.
What they really have is a capacity problem they haven’t acknowledged yet.
🎧 Listen First — VPB Podcast Episode
This Dispatch is an assessment of patterns surfaced in this episode — not a summary.
If you haven’t listened yet, start with the full conversation:
→ Listen to the VPB Podcast episode
https://link.bklab.io/sp/c1b0d1ea869
Then come back here for the analysis.
Episode 1 of the VPB Podcast made something painfully clear:
You can’t scale what you can’t sustain.
And too many founders are asking for money to rescue their model instead of money to grow it.
This Dispatch breaks down the patterns I see every day across NYC, Rochester, the Caribbean, and diaspora-driven ecosystems — the same patterns that surfaced in this first episode.
This is the truth most people won’t say out loud.
