[infinite8s]

Ok that makes more sense. But not sure why she would use an email that paints her partner in a bad light unless you knew the context.

[elizyin]

Ah sorry - I didn't realize people wouldn't understand this was a spam pitch! Point taken. I address non-native English speakers later in the post.

[infinite8s]

The immediate quote below the email images is: "(In fact, the vast majority of pitches I’ve seen probably fall under this category and these only take a few seconds to read and archive, so this is how you get to see 20k pitches!)"

So the majority of pitches you see are spam pitches? As a former grad student in chemistry/biophysics, I would see no reason to read that pitch as a spam. In fact, at first I thought it was quite liberating that 500startups would entertain non-traditional startups trying to tackle real-life hard problems in the physical science industries instead of another startup in the food delivery or cleaning services space, and then the response from your partner was, shall we say, discouraging. You might want to edit your post since it doesn't paint 500startups in a good light.

[anindha]

It would have been good to see a pitch that you discarded quickly to understand your reasoning.

I thought the post was really good otherwise.