In this solo episode of Burning the Ships, I’m breaking down one of the most important topics in our business: raising capital. Instead of interviewing a guest this week, I’m pulling back the curtain on how we built 608B Capital Funding from an idea to a $20 million debt fund in under two and a half years—without sales gimmicks, without shortcuts, and without ever losing sight of consistency.

I walk through the real story of how we started from zero, why we spent four months preparing before taking in a single investor, and what it really took to build a pipeline that compounds. If you’ve ever wanted to understand how private lending works, how to attract investors, or how to scale a business by simply doing the fundamentals extremely well, this episode gives you the playbook I’ve lived by.

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