I'll submit that it's safer to show your startup to GV than to a regular VC. A regular VC has a whole mess of portfolio companies, across many vintage funds, t

I'll submit that it's safer to show your startup to GV than to a regular VC. A regular VC has a whole mess of portfolio companies, across many vintage funds, to share your stuff with (and in the case of DFJ, a whole 'nother mess of associated funds). The odds that Google will rip off your idea to build something in-house as quickly as you can are astronomically small.