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Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital partner, offers a counterintuitive take: the best pitches aren't the polished ones. They're the ones where founders openly admit their mistakes. In 2007, Sequoia led Dropbox's $1.2M seed round at a $5M valuation. Eleven years later, the company went public at $9 billion. But back in 2007, Dropbox was far from a sure thing. Online storage was a crowded, commoditized market. So what made Sequoia bet on Drew Houston? Doug explains: "Drew Houston, who was going to launch a company in a crowded market and yet could clearly articulate why none of the existing products were going to make it. Crystal clear thinking is one of the things we look for. Not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal clear thinking." What won Sequoia over was clarity, not polish. Doug shares another example of a great pitch, Fred Luddy, whose company was growing like a weed: "All he told us was all the mistakes he made. Those were the great pitches. Those were people that were self-aware. They were crystal clear thinkers. They were willing to learn, willing to listen, and in some cases willing not to listen." Doug also emphasises that the smallest details reveal a founder's mindset: "We pay careful attention to little words, to the pronoun being used. When someone says, 'I can ship you this thing,' it's a little warning. Fred, what do you mean you can ship us? You're not shipping us anything. It's your company that's shipping us." And he acknowledges the paradox in great founders: "Founders tend to not be the greatest listeners. And in many cases, they're right because they're doing new things, trying new things."

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If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose. Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs. The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza. Then he skipped Pittsburgh. The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter." The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career. He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree. Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January. Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue. Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brains. Don't mistake one tier for another. Be precise, and always be truthful.

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Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

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