My theory:
Leftists dehumanize us because they inversely correlate prosperity and development with moral character.
A poor or underdeveloped country must be so due to resisting Western hegemony and asserting its sovereignty.
Any developed country must be so due to its complicity and subservience to Western imperialism [SIC].
Right-wingers dehumanize us because weโre brown and Muslim.
I vastly prefer the latter; much less condescending and pretentious.
We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Hereโs a few slides about our background and some of the things weโve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). Weโll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.