The armchair quarterbacking in this thread is ridiculous. This was a great, and really human, take on pitching that 99.99% of founders miss. Pitching VCs (or YC

The armchair quarterbacking in this thread is ridiculous. This was a great, and really human, take on pitching that 99.99% of founders miss. Pitching VCs (or YC) is only ostensibly about raising financing. Pitching is about refining your idea, identifying problem / solution pairs and subsets (or supersets!) of your primary pitch you haven't considered, building relationships and a whole lot more. That fact that Michael Seibel is responding to folks in this thread who are doing the quarterbacking speaks volumes to the success of this founder's pitch in spite of not receiving an invitation to YC this go-around. First, a rejection today is not a rejection tomorrow. Second, Michael is a busy guy. The fact he's taking the time to speak up for a founder he feels a connection with is perhaps worth more long-term than a single YC acceptance letter. There are YC-backed founders that never get that level of attention.