Often, some founder tweets that investors should be giving them honest feedback after pitching. It is bad PR for an investor to say the truth, so I'll say it: 90% of people with a pitch deck go completely insane if you imply their company has an imperfection.
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Replying to @rishmishra
Huh?! I have never had an investor meeting that didn’t include critique. Including, like, “change your entire business model” level of criticism. And it’s generally been fine (though I haven’t always agreed with the advice.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @rishmishra
Investors IME have overwhelmingly given criticism in a spirit of good will and helpfulness. I’ve gotten hostility a grand total of twice; once when an investor thought I should be inflating numbers to the point of deceptiveness and seemed offended I didn’t want to, and once...
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when a financially successful founder went an hour over our scheduled time seemingly trying to prove that his 9-figure company was better than our seed-stage one, I suspect as a ploy to hire us.
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