[everdev]

Referrals are huge for VCs and maybe that's the reason. If they're going to take a huge risk they want some level of trust and the fastest way to establish that is if you've already gained the trust of one of their friends.

It looks pretentious from the outside, but it does help ensure fewer fraudsters get in to pitch them.

[gowld]

This is why "equality of opportunity" social reforms have to start with people in childhood, and the older the subject, the less likely the efforts are to succeed.