Paik: Companies that can be described in one sentence lack ambition
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Chris Paik, General Partner at Pace Capital, debates host Harry Stebbings on 20VC about whether startups should be able to condense their pitch into a single sentence.
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“If everything that a company is doing and building can really be accurately described in a single sentence, it's probably too one dimensional. It's probably not Ambitious enough.”
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