Why I Love Getting Rejected by VCs (And You Should, Too!)
3 min readJan 7, 2020
I’ll never forget my first phone call with a venture capitalist. I was in my early-20s and a few months into working on a new startup.
The VC was a prominent, seed-stage investor out of the Bay Area. We spoke for 30 minutes, I shared my venture, he asked some thoughtful questions, and the call ended on what seemed like a clear highnote: “You’re doing some really…