Agreed. The main problem is you can lie and game the VC&#x27;s. &quot;It&#x27;s called future-selling and everyone does it&quot;, a biz-guy once told me. It&#x27;s not a lie, we are &quot;hacking the interview&quot;. Coders like hacking, right ? You see, just rebrand &quot;lies&quot;, muddle the context and now your type-A biz co-founder can say anything while his engineer co-founder sits their quietly wondering if this really is normal. I&#x27;ve also heard &quot;I&#x27;ll stop doing that if it makes you uncomfortable&quot; but once it is part of a person&#x27;s personality, it can become pathological. They don&#x27;t even know when they are acting this way.<p>The disconnect comes from engineering environments where there is no Alpha and Beta mindset, only varying degrees of competence. Trust your instincts and conscience. The VC only has a limited time for due-diligence.