The Water Trick, Lilliana Vasquez, Kara Nortman and Nairi Hourdajian | The 2019 MAKERS Conference
Video Transcript
– How do you guys craft a strong meaningful ask?
– So important. I think women, as women, we’re so used to thinking, I’ve got this, I can handle it. So one of the tricks I learned– my background was in politics before I switched to tech. And working with a lot of candidates and the trainers who trained candidates, first thing you do as a political candidate is raise money.
You call all your friends and family and you ask them to give you money to run for a race you may not win. And so what women would do is, “Hi, I’m running for office. I was wondering if you might be able to give $10,000 to my campaign or $8,000 or $5,000 or really whatever you can do.”
And so what the fundraising trainers would coach is, have a bottle of water …