omg I just heard an investor actually ask a founder if his product used XML

Jul 18, 2014 路 12:38 AM UTC

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@sama "no, we're waiting for the technology to be more mature."
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@sama presumably this was a question designed to filter out the company.
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@sama The founder should ask back "Does your VC fund use ACH?" Attack TLA with TLA.
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@sama We have rewritten our whole product to take advantage of SGML.
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@sama "no, we use markup instead".
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@sama Was the next question which CSS they were using?
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@sama "Oh yes, our Oculus app uses VRML."
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@sama did you spontaneously combust?
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@sama Possibly a filtering mechanism. If so they definitely need some pre-filters.
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@sama I recently heard an aspiring founder suggest evaluating contacts with klout! ...ideas and tools spread w/ finite speed & have inertia.