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I wasn't born into the connections, and that's what being "fundable" is actually about Are you amenable to being convinced that this belief is false if I can p

• michaelochurch 13y ago
  Not really. Most of them teamed up with well-connected co-founders. The problem is that 95+% of those well-connected people take an insufferably superior stance toward anyone who's not in their set. If you can find one in that other <5% of that already small set, good for you, but it's not common. If you're from a rich and well-connected background, VCs who turn you down mentor you until you're fundable, and set you up with EIR sinecures so money's not an issue. If not, you're trying to hit the head of a pin from a mile. The game is clearly rigged, but very few people have the courage to talk about it.
• verbin217 13y ago
  I don't think anecdotes can support or contradict the type of assertion he's making. People frequently point to that rare individual who overcame adversity. It doesn't really prove anything. The system is big enough that there will be instances to support nearly any belief. I think the opposite of what he's saying might be something like: "It's not who you know, it's what you know." I can only speak for myself but that seems much less true.