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After being told “I wouldn’t fund you in a million years” from a famous VC, I got so angry that I sent 20 pizzas with anchovies to his house from various pizza chains at the same time. Now, I feel a bit guilty about it, anyway I can fix this?

17 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Jul 7, 2014

BRILLIANT!!!

I'm sorry. I have no idea how to fix it without lying a lot.

AAnonymous· Jul 7, 2014

I would have used Optimizely to A/B test which of the pizza places delivered the pizzas the fastest and with the best quality, then you could have shown your VC buddy that you know how to "fail fast" and would impress him (or her).

AAnonymous· Jul 13, 2014

+1 :)

AAnonymous· Aug 1, 2014

Serious LOL from me. gj

AAnonymous· Jul 7, 2014

Obviously a troll post. Also, why do people feel entitled to VC money? It was never your money to begin with so why get angry when someone refuses to give it to you? Instead, why not try to bootstrap and generate revenue so that you won't have to rely on other people giving you money.

AAnonymous· Jul 7, 2014

Why do you feel guilty about giving a VC "pizza day"?

AAnonymous· Jul 7, 2014

haha - no feeling bad needed

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

It would be hard to find 20 different pizzerias in delivery range of any place, especially ones that serve anchovies. But was it indeed 20 pizzerias, or something like 4 pizzas from 5 pizzerias each?

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

Anchovies was perfect.

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

This is so awesome I wish it actually happened.

Anchovies are pretty good on pizza actually. Restraint is key. Two is enough for an entire pie.

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

So the person wrote pizza 'chains' (could have said pizza places, but chose that word) - can you think of 20 pizza chains? I can only think of maybe 4 or 5 (Dominoes, Lil Ceasar, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, and Round Table, that's it).

And so one commenter probably also noticed this, and postulated that it was perhaps 5 pizzas from '4 chains'.

Is that a nod to 4chan? Are we being riddle-trolled?

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

Why did you send pizza? Why not a bag of shit?

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

Your joking right?

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

Troll post. "Famous VCs" don't waste time with mocking you, they politely decline and move on.

AAnonymous· Jul 15, 2014

That isn't strictly true. I once got told by a famous VC that our traction was bull shit and that he would spend more on his lunch today than we generated in monthly revenues (it was a couple of thousand dollars at the time).

But he was pretty friendly afterwards.

@OP, don't let a VC ruin your day, but do think about whether he is right or not.

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

I am that VC.

btw: My family LOVES anchovies. You got something right.

Call my office and let's talk.

AAnonymous· Jul 8, 2014

A new anchovie pizza startup in the making?