@Cloudchord@LoewyLawFirm at times. not at all 6 months. and you can duck into a retail store for AC if you need... not so much in vast swaths of austin.
They behave badly. No question.
I had one show up 50 mins late to a one hour pitch then gave all this terrible feedback about my business, much of which I'd covered earlier in the meeting. Needless to say, they passed.
Had another who told me they'd invest if I won a major customer. I did. Then he set another milestone. Didn't win that one either.
All that said, it was all coded language for my deal not being appealing.
When I co-founded a fund later, I made sure to be direct. That had its own challenges, but I felt like I was an ethical participant in the system.
@chamath this is why many will go to local LLMs and ultimately reject the enterprise hypothesis. anything sent to an LLM platform is fair game for their reuse.
@bryan_johnson you can do anything from praying a rosary to simply calming your mind and talking to God. it doesn't have to be super formal, but just clear your mind and go and eliminate distraction beforehand