If you think of VCs / founders as a marketplace, which it kindof is, then yes. You have a larger 'market' for selling your startup idea, and optimize the 'produ

If you think of VCs / founders as a marketplace, which it kindof is, then yes. You have a larger 'market' for selling your startup idea, and optimize the 'product' for 'fit'. If you think of VCs as totally independent, open-minded, critically thinking professionals, dutifully providing a financial service, then no. You pick the VC for the idea rather than the idea for the VC. The second case is the ideal, but assumes highly-competent VCs and founders with equalish leverage. I think the perverse incentives for VC partners (read Palihapitiya) and the lack-of-prestige factors for first-time founders break the model. But this seems to be more true for second-time founders with moderate success under their belt.