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zach weinberg

Operator Fund / angel

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Got introduced to Zach through [steward of sequoia] who was leading our round. Zach joined the first call 25 minutes late, and began by asking if [Sequoia gp] was my cofounder. Zach then asked if I had sent him a deck, which I had a week prior, before berating me for using superhuman because "he never gets those f*cking emails and this is the worst time to use a new email client". After five minutes of scanning the deck silently on the line he yelled "I'm proud of myself, I know exactly what my feedback is". He spent the next 15 minutes ranting about how no one will buy our product and how his only advice was to not build this business. I laughed at the end, and asked if since he was clearly not going to invest, if he had any constructive feedback I could give [sequoia] just in case he was making a mistake since it was a space Zach new well. You can imagine what followed. We raised our B about six months after this conversation and one of his partners at the his fund reached out. I never replied and apparently our name still comes up as "pompous and unresponsive" whenever someone back channels through them.
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