Y Combinator's Demo Day loses luster

I might be missing something - it’s early in the morning - but a VC at another investor says Demo Day isn’t that good, and Axios runs with a story saying as much?

I think capital is plentiful for quality companies so there are certainly options out there. But from what I can see anecdotally, YC is, now as much as ever, a fantastic opportunity to gain visibility to high-quality investors.

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Post by atlasunshrugged » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

Seems like pretty lackadaisical coverage with no actual data backing it up other than a line about "many investors told Axios..." which might be interesting if we understood how many they talked to, quality of the firm, etc.

Generally, I'm actually inclined to agree with the article, but what is essentially an opinion piece presenting itself as real coverage annoys me.

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Post by truenindb » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

Is this part of the overall shift of computer interfaces to borderline useless tools which are more focused on interrogating and manipulating computer users than actually getting some kind of work done on the computer or is it a different kind of police state metastiziation?

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Post by pyb » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

I am not 100% sure that the author wrote this title. It is much more dramatic than the article.

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Post by cebert » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

Does anyone else feel like this is a clickbait article? I don’t really see anything that substantial here.

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Post by truenindb » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

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Post by omarhaneef » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

Does the body of the article really match the headline? People are tuning in online instead. There might be less pressure to watch them.

This struck me: “ According to YC, more than 1,500 investors tuned into Demo Day this week, generating almost 50,000 investment leads.”

So on average each investor reached out to around 33 companies?