Founders losing their sh*t

Founders losing their sh*t George curtilss I literally heart June 24, 2026 914 Views Garry Tan: Put a Leash on Your YC Founders. In my entire professional career as a capital allocator and VC, I have never — not once — been spoken to with the level of raw, disgusting disrespect I received from a YC founder who told A startup founder tweeted to an investor that he literally 3ffed his mother and this is becoming the new rule in Silicon Valley. Some VC Posted, put a leash on your startup founders. That's the level we're at. Founders openly disrespecting V C's in public, and the V C's are losing it. And I see why. I'm a founder in SF, and the quiet advice now is walk into V C. Meetings like you don't need the money. Don't take meetings with junior associates. Don't act grateful. Some founders take it too far and get blackballed. I sit in the middle feeling torn. We're handed this conflicting advice to play psychologic@l w@refare, acting like we entirely despise the investor's money. But if you overdo your arrogance and you earn a permanently unfundable reputation, you're trapped between acting polite and acting powerful. Even the top V C. Said that being controversial gives his firm an advantage. Now his founders are drawn to candid V C's. Translation he's openly admitting V C's have to perform for founders now, not the other way around. Meltdown you're watching isn't about manners. It's a power shift in real time. Founders acting like jerks means earned confidence or an ego bubble about to pop. Tell me below.