The investors I’m speaking with aren’t asking about multiples on their investment. Show them that, show them you have a plan for how to manage their investment, and save the creative pitch deck for your creative collaborators. The money I’m describing isn’t chasing the highest-grossing genre, because it isn’t optimizing for gross. Money from aligned investors – you might even call them patrons – isn’t free money. If you take money from investors you owe them a film that serves them and their values, not a film that uses them and their money for your vanity project.