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Sáles-Griffin: Venture capitalists are wrong most of the time

Neal Sales-Griffin · #109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse · Mar 4, 2025 · at 24:57

Debriefing after passing on Modern Picnic on The Pitch, investor Neal Sáles-Griffin argues founders should not let VC rejections define them.

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“It's hard for people to understand, in this line of work, we are wrong most of the time.”

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