[dang]

Journalists can't help but write that way, but it rings true to me. The cockroach metaphor was definitely on pg's mind in late 2008/early 2009—he repeated it to us too, saying that they had optimized the W09 batch for survivors. Sequoia had recently issued its "Winter is coming" memo (https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/sequoia-capitals-56-slide-...) and everyone was expecting the climate to be tough—as it indeed turned out to be.

And the awkwardness when pg thought they were trying to give him a marketing gift is definitely true to character.