>it wasn't clear whether you wished to buy a portion of the business or a portion of a founder. This is pretty unprofessional and unnecessarily aggressive. The

>it wasn't clear whether you wished to buy a portion of the business or a portion of a founder. This is pretty unprofessional and unnecessarily aggressive. The email could simply say "We appreciated your offer, but you made one of our founders uncomfortable with your physical touching and we don't believe we'd have a productive professional relationship that started off in this manner. We understand if the touching was unintentional, but we must decline regardless." It makes the same point, doesn't accuse him of doing anything intentionally, and is hopefully actually conducive to making him not do it in the future.