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The RealReal CEO: If you start a company today, getting seed money is pretty easy

Full video of Julie Wainwright speaking at Code Commerce conference.

The RealReal founder and CEO Julie Wainwright sits for an onstage interview at a 2016 Code Commerce event in Las Vegas.
The RealReal founder and CEO Julie Wainwright sits for an onstage interview at a 2016 Code Commerce event in Las Vegas.
Recode/Alex Ulreich

The RealReal CEO Julie Wainwright has run a ton of companies — including Pets.com — and despite predictions of a slowdown in startups, in some ways it’s now easier to raise money.

In today’s entrepreneurial world, the “wheat and chaff are separating,” she told Recode’s Jason Del Rey at the first Code Commerce Series event in Las Vegas. “If you start a company now, seed is pretty easy, Series A not so much.”

Here’s the full video:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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