Investor: easily falsifiable claims like '$60K ARR, profitable' hurt cold email odds
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-11-14
MartinGTobias describes a cold pitch claiming "$60K ARR, profitable" and questions its plausibility — are the founders unpaid with zero AI costs? His advice to founders: easily falsifiable claims in cold emails reduce, not improve, your chances of a reply.
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