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War Stories from a VC
- late2part 11y agoI'm not allergic to the term "War Stories" like smacktoward. I would like to see a similarly highlight set of curated stories about entrepreneurs that succeeded or failed while working with VCs. Frankly, these stories read more like marketing and fluff than real war stories or lessons learned.
- fapjacks 11y agoHaving been shot at in actual wars, I find it disrespectful and dishonest to use this term to describe some marketing experience or whatever. Unless, of course, you pulled a rotting child corpse out of a canal at some point. Then I suppose you could say it was a "war story".
- smacktoward 11y agoI know this will sound nit-picky, but it's one of my pet peeves: don't talk about "war stories" unless they involve you getting shot at. Really, literally shot at, or otherwise menaced by someone who wants to kill you. It just feels disrespectful to hear people talk that way in a society where we send a tiny fraction of our population off to actually bear those risks on our behalf, while the rest of us sit comfortably in air-conditioned rooms where the biggest risk we face is obesity. It's vicarious masculinity, borrowed valor. People use these terms all the time, without thinking. "War stories." "Knife fight." "In the trenches." A trench is a muddy hole in the ground that you had to dig yourself to keep your innards from getting pierced by flying metal. Your Aeron chair is not a trench. End of rant.