Fair enough, and I guess we have to differentiate between VC-funded and others. E.g. your comment might be true for VC-funded. But it may not be true for other

Fair enough, and I guess we have to differentiate between VC-funded and others. E.g. your comment might be true for VC-funded. But it may not be true for other types, e.g. bootstrapping. But then additionally, I'm super surprised how a well-engineered product can transfer trust to potential customers. Consider, now that we've all been on the Internet for 20 years, we have well-trained bullshit sensors. So I'd say there are shades of grey in all of this.