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Thanks man, you just became my therapist. Let me know where to send the $200.
Totally agree with you. One thing I actually like about China's laws — you can't become an influencer on something without a degree in it. Yeah, it kills a lot of people who'd have made it without one, but at least you don't get random nobodies being loudly wrong about things they've never studied. If you don't know the shit, don't talk about it. I learned 7 programming languages in school — C, C++, Java, C#, HTML and more. Still wouldn't walk up to a CTO and lecture him. One thing I didn't mention in the post. The girl he was flirting with? I actually know her and her guy. She's the one who asked me to come meet this LP. Sitting there watching him flirt with her, tell her she should build alone and he'd back her, her passing him gum, him half on his phone — wasn't a great watch. She showed me his LinkedIn. Yale PhD in math, no funding mentioned, no background in entrepreneurship. Just wanting to flirt with her. I left. He couldn't say anything to me directly. All the peacocking was for her and for the young game dev founder he was grilling. Then he turned to that founder and told him he doesn't need to raise funds, trying to pull him down just to look smart, and I lost it internally. I've been in gaming 10 years. First 2 bootstrapped, building games for other companies. Got funding in year 4, through an accelerator, because the total annual VC money in India right now is roughly what Anthropic raised in the previous round. So when he turned and told the guy "you don't need VC money, you're not ready," I jumped in to defend him. At some point she told me he'd said something about my product too — that I don't need an ICP, that I shouldn't focus on one user. Our traction came from neurodivergent kids who loved the product. We teach real-life skills through games — originally aimed at young adults, but neurodivergent kids especially get a lot from it, because reading social cues, setting boundaries, body language, negotiation, all of that is harder for them, and games are a low-stakes way to practice. Meanwhile he was acting like some YC advisor or LP, showing off and telling everyone what to do. I don't know why I'm this upset. Maybe my ego, maybe I just really wanted to shut him up in the moment and didn't. Just hated everything about him, his energy, all of it. Thanks for listening, orionblastar. Made a real difference. :) |
Feel free to bend my ear anytime, I'm a good listener.
That Fake LP needs to be mentored and taught by a real LP. A PhD in Math is fine, but computers and making human connections require more than just math.