Jorge Selva @JorgeSelva - Twitter Profile

@antoniogm I also just drove that same one from Barcelona to Lisbon today. Stopped in Sigüenza outside of Madrid for the night. Pulled over for multiple quotidian cafés and tortillas along the way. Thought you’d appreciate.

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Jorge Selva

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3 days ago

@antoniogm Let’s go! I ordered mine years ago at 2am after a long night with colleagues out in Porto. No regrets.

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3 days ago

@Valerie_Onchain @not13ivan @mikhailtoh @zaika_hl Where?

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3 days ago

@bladenomics @seccingaround I could’ve waited for a confirmed calendar invite, but we met on Wednesday and it didn’t feel like it was necessary to confirm with so little time in between. I also forgot to mention that I was messaging with the VC until a few days before on product stuff and then he ghosted.

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I have one. About 10 years ago, after I had started my first company, I got a DM from a well-known VC at a big fund that everybody would recognize. He said, “I love what you’re doing. I would love to be your first user.” I was so excited. We agreed to meet up at Cafe Trieste on a weekday, alongside a trip I was making out to interview with YC. Anyways, I met up with this VC at Cafe Trieste and we had a long afternoon chat. Probably a couple of hours, really interesting, all about our product direction, where we saw the company going, how much he loved what we were doing and the approach. My co-founder and I were thrilled. At the end of it, he said, “Can you come back Monday at 10am to meet the rest of our partners?” And I said, “Absolutely. I’ll fly back out from Chicago. Would love to meet everybody, no big deal.” Friday comes along after he had looped me in with his assistant over email. And I started to get nervous, because I hadn’t heard an update on timing or anything. So I sent an email asking, “Once we get to the building, what do we do?” Maybe it was naive of me, but I didn’t hear back. And I thought, we had agreed on Monday, meet at the office, good enough, whatever. I sat through the weekend, didn’t hear anything, was very nervous, but still decided to power through. I took the red-eye Sunday night, got into SF Monday morning, and went to where their office was based on the public address I could find. I sent another message: “Hey, I’m here. Let me know what I should do.” Nothing. Ten o’clock rolls around. I messaged the assistant: “Hey, just checking to make sure so-and-so is still available to meet today. Let me know.” She writes back, “Oh, they’re in a meeting right now. It’s very busy, very busy. I’ll let you know as soon as possible.” By 11 o’clock, nothing. I keep following up. Spent the rest of the afternoon trying to get in touch, but nothing. Literally ghosted me. No follow-up. Sure, it was naive of me to make the trip without confirming first. But I was in my early 20s and excited. It was one of my first VC meetings, and yeah. Definitely a shitty blow!

Bojan Tunguz

@tunguz

4 days ago

Man, I so wish I had some cringe VC stories to share.

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Jorge Selva

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3 days ago

@Andrey__HQ Didn’t take their money! But yeah definitely shitty.

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3 days ago

Hey @EF_ESP, let me introduce you to @altitude. Send and receive USDC on Ethereum, then move it anywhere in the world with no fees. On and off ramp with no fees. You can also get corporate cards to put all your foundation spend in one place. Self-custodial, easy to track and report. Who can I show this to?

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