I agree with a lot of the sentiment here that the presentation is a little overly drawn out and meandering, but the end point in spot on. I recently took the a

I agree with a lot of the sentiment here that the presentation is a little overly drawn out and meandering, but the end point in spot on. I recently took the advice to contact entrepreneurs I was interested in working with on the advice of a friend. The response was overwhelmingly positive and generous. I emailed the founders of two companies I've been following for a while (one a former YC company) simply introducing myself and asking for advice on what I should do to put myself in a position so that they might want to hire me in the future. The response I got from both was more than overwhelming. One responded to my first email within an hour with detailed explanations of what I should be doing and what I can do in the future. Furthermore, he responded to each of my follow up questions almost instantly after receiving them. The second responded offering to set up a skype call in the next couple of weeks to talk over my questions with me more thoroughly. These are both guys whom I have to assume are insanely busy and get far more important emails than random cold calls every day. I feel like a lot of people don't take approaches like this and don't reach out to people because they have the same assumptions I did. I guess all I can say is, never underestimate the generosity and outgoingness of the entrepreneurial community.