Slow Ventures holds a ‘finishing school’ to help founders learn to be fancy

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Slow Ventures hosted a three-hour “Etiquette Finishing School” this week, covering topics similar the cleanable handshake, nationalist speaking, and bureau decorum. There was adjacent a manner amusement with models showing disconnected antithetic looks for antithetic occasions, and past a closing acquisition astir caviar and wine.

The San Francisco Standard reports that a fewer 100 founders applied for the escaped program, held astatine the Four Seasons successful SF’s fiscal district, with 50 founders accepted. Most of the attendees were male.

Apparently the thought started arsenic a joke, with Slow Ventures sussing retired involvement astatine Y Combinator’s Demo Day. And portion YC CEO Garry Tan reportedly told founders not to attend, Tan posted connected X that helium has “no beef with Slow Ventures,” portion writing, “You don’t request finishing school. You request to physique thing great, marque your users happy, and person craftsmanship.”

One unnamed laminitis told The Standard that they attended to larn however to beryllium “less feral.”

“Tech is nary longer playful and cute,” Slow Ventures wide spouse Sam Lessin reportedly told the audience. “It’s taking people’s jobs and changing environments. Everyone’s threatened by it, which means you request to beryllium like, ‘I’m present and respectful,’ arsenic opposed to ‘I’m present and intentionally disrespectful.’”

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