Silicon Valley founders publicly roast venture capitalists online

Over the past few days, some Silicon Valley tech founders have taken to the internet to publicly roast the venture capitalists they once pitched. Greg Isenberg, host of The Startup Ideas Podcast, posted to X about raising a $15 million Series A: "12 people in the meeting.

One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going." He said he continued the presentation, sharing slides with an investor he called an "unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair." "That's venture capital," he wrote.

Others chimed in with their own memorable pitch moments. Uber founder Travis Kalanick recalled pitching an investor in 2001 who was sitting in a "parked Lexus" and "grabbed" his laptop, placed it "on his large belly," pressed it against the steering wheel, and began flipping through the slides himself.

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