This closes off some avenues to you, but isn't a career killer, particularly if e.g. you work in security. (Of all things.) I don't know why you'd disclose th

This closes off some avenues to you, but isn't a career killer, particularly if e.g. you work in security. (Of all things.) I don't know why you'd disclose this without first being asked. If they don't ask, it isn't because they don't want to know, it's simply because it isn't in their decision calculus. I would not inject it into their decision calculus, in the same fashion as I wouldn't say "Don't have great reasons to not hire me? I can think of three!" Your recent potential employer has a curious understanding f how much VCs notice non-founder employees, to my understanding. Feel free to check that with people who do this for a living, but I'd bet on most VCs being unable to name non-founder non-management employees, to say nothing of running background checks on them.