Founders on here....what's the worst VC experience that you've had ?

I once had an enlightening conversation with a 4 yoe associate telling me to move ("transform") the sales process to MEDDICC.

I played along and told them I have never heard of it and if they would be kind enough to walk me through it.

I was then subjected to the intense experience of someone who had never done any sales in their life unfurl the acronym, and stop at that. No further nuance, no explanation, no reasoning to why it'd be better for us. We'd already been using a modified lite version with the teams for a couple of quarters by then.

Apparently John McMahon's book is easily available on Amazon and a one time read turns everyone into an accomplished Enterprise Sales Leader.

I once had a newly inducted analyst talk to me about the “market” and customer behaviour trying to be cool and blabbering some social media bulshit that he may have come acros by browsing all day long to build “thesis”. I asked a simple question - so how many years did you spend in the market to have these insights? ….pin drop silence 😂😂 The guys left the firm to do a job somewhere else while we’ve grown 10x since! 😅

Even pitching is mostly a pointless process. Unless you have -

IIT/IIM degree SaaS business CTO from day 1 Proprietary code/moat (lol) Largest TAM possible Hockey stick growth (lol) High growth but questionable monetization

Very few pitches actually helped me in any way through feedback. Most of them were a complete waste of time.

Best to build until investors come to you. Almost pointless to approach investors.