3 ms·

If you haven't heard it before then I'd definitely recommend listening to Sacca's critique of Blumberg pitch on TAL: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-arch

• yitchelle 12y ago
  It is almost an artform as to how Sacca did that pitch. I have hear it in an environment where a high energy debating teams were going head to head on contentious subjects.
• josu 12y ago
  I recommend listening to the whole Blumberg's Startup podcast, where that pitch came from. While you shouldn't take it as a lecture on how to start a business, it's certainly entertaining, well produced and it shows you that side of the story that you usually don't get to hear. http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
• zemvpferreira 12y ago
  I agree that he did a great job, but consider the power of circumstances: it's a lot easier to pitch when pitching is an intellectual exercise for you, instead of the full expression of what you are and hope to be in this world as a person, delivered to the gatekeeper of the capital you need to make that journey, who will not give you a second chance if you fuck up, and without whom you're destined to go back to living in your mother's basement, a broken and destitute man shunned by society. Or back to Yahoo or Stanford or wherever you came from.
  • myth_buster 12y ago
    Perhaps it's psychological. I've often found that if I build up stakes for a test/interview/application, I perform far worse than attempting it with a more frivolous attitude.