This affirms my experiences with getting to a venture-funded deal. The stylistic elements of this piece, not its content. Someone who can speak the product man

This affirms my experiences with getting to a venture-funded deal. The stylistic elements of this piece, not its content. Someone who can speak the product managerese--who takes 7,000 words to say something and look thoughtful while doing it--is so essential to getting to a venture-funded deal. Being on the other side of the process she describes sucks. Like nobody wants to be part of this imaginary, psuedo-scientific competition. In reality she just acquiesced to whatever the 6th person demanded. The process wore her down. If the process didn't wear her down, there would be no deal, because the deal only occurs when the product manager character moves along. In quintessential product manager form, the process disguised a completely emotionally-driven decision by providing a post-hoc rational for it.