Pawan

I interview interesting folks on the Coffee By Two Pod + I want to work with leaders who treat people decently +looking for a good opportunity

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What??????

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Did content for a VC firm once. Pure asshole behavior. Arrogant, gaslighting, no reason given. People put up with it because they sign the cheques.

[nihar bobba @nbobba]

In 2018, was pitching peakxv at their office. The partner badgered us over LinkedIn and email to come and meet them. We’re in a large conference room in Bangalore (has a bit of an echo), partner keeps dozing off through the meeting while the associate asks some of the most braindead questions on the planet that would likely only make sense on an IIT exam. Asked for our deck/data room even though we weren’t raising, said we weren’t raising and then asked us what we were hoping to get out of the meeting if we weren’t raising. Partner has since left, judging by track record I’m pretty confident he’s ngmi with new fund he’s trying to raise, associate is probably going to bed at night solving his IIT question bank and feeling good about himself.

Same thing happened with Accel India. Not raising, associate badgers us to come by the office and meet his partner, naive founder at the time so we go. 45 min meeting on the books, partner walks in 30 min late while associate tries to hold the room politely on his behalf. No apology from the partner, couldn’t care less about us, the story or anything. We hadn’t shared a data room in advance (why would we, not raising) yells at us for wasting his time and not having any data for him to look through and proceeds to walk out of the meeting 5 min early. We politely follow up over email with thoughtful answers to some of the aggressive questions he posed during the 10 min of the meeting he attended and a thank you for his time, he never responded and neither did the associate. Partner is still at Accel India and senior leader of the firm.

Good lesson for me as a VC now to know that the bar is so low at firms that the world thinks are great. Also a good reminder for us at BTV to help our companies navigate away from terrible individuals who are not worth doing business with.

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tell me you're out of touch with reality without telling me you're out of touch with reality.

[Shilpak. @ugach_kahitarii]

Gazab delusion mein rehte hain log

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