Founder recounts absurd 'Miracle Balm' humiliation ritual to land angel investment in AI drama thread
jacob_posel · x · 2026-11-16
An absurdist AI-circle thread: the author describes asking an investor to angel-invest in HQ, only to be sent hundreds of jars of Jones Road Beauty's Miracle Balm™ with instructions to smear all of it on his face as a 'humiliation ritual', while the investor sings to his Hermes agent on a Mac Mini.
Quoting Greg Isenberg's real anecdote — pitching a $15M Series A to a top-3 VC firm while one GP slept soundly for 30+ minutes and nobody acknowledged it — the thread riffs on the weird power dynamics of venture fundraising: 'sometimes your partner is unconscious.'
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