Scientists keep hedging their VC pitch decks, diluting big breakthroughs
infoxiao · x · 2026-11-01
Quoting Joanne Jang: while helping build a VC fundraising deck, the scientists kept adding excessive hedges and caveats to what are actually major results — a professional hazard she suspects frontier lab employees will recognize when listening to researcher colleagues. infoxiao calls it the occupational disease of truth-seekers.
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