Gil Penchina: Average VCs ignore post-meeting follow-up emails from founders
Gil Penchina · 20VC: Gil Penchina on Building The World's Largest AngelList Syndicate with Flight.vc · Feb 8, 2016 · at 13:02
Gil Penchina, founder of Flight.vc, discusses his experiences fundraising and evaluating venture capitalists based on whether they follow through on offers to assist entrepreneurs.
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“The average VC ignores that email because they were selling, they weren't actually promising, you know, and the worst VCs will actually just tell you like, no, I'm not going to help.”
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