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Not a VC but if I was I would never click a DocSend link. And VCs hold a lot of power — sure they are all chasing deal flow but if they just responded “I don’t
by ponker 6y ago
Not a VC but if I was I would never click a DocSend link. And VCs hold a lot of power — sure they are all chasing deal flow but if they just responded “I don’t click pitch links, send me a PDF” they would get their PDF 99 times out of 100.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoI'm not sure why this is getting downvoted, but this is a pretty popular perspective in general, let alone VC. Many high-profile folks don't care about your links or secure sites or what have you, they just want the PDF or PPT file. They also generally want the ability to keep it and show it to others, even if you don't want them to. Classic display of power.
- joshu 6y agoI'm an investor and I don't love clicking on the docsend links, but I will. I really dislike clicking on linktracked links, especially from a cold pitch. The worst part of docsend for me is I will get an email saying "check out our new thing" and then I click on it sometime later to look at it again and it's already expired. Or I remember, "hey that deck about xxxyyy, other investor zzz should talk to them" and I can't search for it because there was zero content in the email.
- TechBro8615 6y agoAnd founders don’t like it when a VC forwards their deck to a competing portfolio company.