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by ryguytilidie 2343 days ago
As the person below said, a lot of these people have answers for pretty much everything. I'm the person you're responding to and it pretty much always goes like this:

"Arent there other companies working on fraud on the blockchain? How are you different?"

"Our team is amazing and is made up of myself and my founder who have 3-4 years of experience and need to fill it with 8+ year experienced engineers because before then no one is really useful here."

Me: "..."

OR

"Do we really need another machine learning solution to classify documents? What is different from you and your competitors?"

"Well, we think everyone else is doing it wrong and that we've found the perfect solution."

"What is that?"

"Myself and my cofounder are far smarter than any of our competitors".

OR

"How do you talk to candidates about salary?"

"Well, we don't give any actual numbers, but we share our compensation philosophy doc, which ive linked here".

"Right, but can you afford these people? why do you expect them to take a huge pay cut to make you a millionaire?"

"The right person will have faith"

There's always an answer that feels like it was fed to them by a VC who knows it won't really work, but is just hoping and praying.