{"id":9575,"date":"2017-03-01T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:08:48","slug":"vcs-are-a-lot-like-us-customs-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/vcs-are-a-lot-like-us-customs-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"VCs Are a Lot Like US Customs Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pattern recognition. We are great at pattern recognition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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A software engineer was detained by U.S. Customs \u2014 and given a test to prove he\u2019s an engineer recode.net\/2017\/2\/28\/1476\u2026<\/span><\/a> via @Recode<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This article is way more tolerable when you edit-replace ‘Customs Agent’ with *VC*\u202c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Omin later tells me that the questions looked to him like someone with no technical background Googled something like, \u201cQuestions to ask a software engineer.\u201d\u202c<\/div>\n
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Watch Nicolai Tesla (Elon’s kindred spirit & #nonEmployeeCoFounder<\/a> of #GE<\/a>; at USA border patrol ’17
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[crickets] 
\nWhen you follow up with VCs they deny multiple requests to determine status of VC funding Re @robhof<\/a> @Recode<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sHgoCF8UcB<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Every single question the ‘Customs Agent’ asked, he then hushed me like a *VC* interrupting my pitch deck
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If you wanna charm a VC or a Border Agent (sans engineering degree), use paper and write stuff out. @robhof<\/a> @Recode<\/a> #cs183cs<\/a> #hiLarryAss<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WjdROALTKB<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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[crickets] 
\nWhen you follow up with VCs they deny multiple requests to determine status of VC funding Re @robhof<\/a> @Recode<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sHgoCF8UcB<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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By Larry Chiang Pattern recognition. We are great at pattern recognition.  Robert Hof (@robhof) 3\/1\/17, 6:01 AM A software engineer was detained by U.S. Customs \u2014 and given a test to prove he\u2019s an engineer recode.net\/2017\/2\/28\/1476\u2026 via @Recode This article is way more tolerable when you edit-replace ‘Customs Agent’ with *VC*\u202c \u202a#hiLarryAss  Omin later tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-underground-capital-knowledge"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}