It's rather ironic that many of the most famous people in the VC industry actually publish their email addresses [1], and then those same people will refuse any

It's rather ironic that many of the most famous people in the VC industry actually publish their email addresses [1], and then those same people will refuse any deal that comes to them this way. It's almost as if these addresses are there to perpetuate the myth that Silicon Valley is open to all comers as long as they've made something great, when the reality is that it's only open to a tiny sliver of entrepreneurs with great networking skills and/or those that are Stanford students/alumni. [1] example: http://www.greylock.com/team/#reid-hoffman http://www.greylock.com/team/#reid-hoffman