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

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.