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Annoying venture capitalists, Russ Heddleston CEO at Distill - The Startup CEO SHOW

20 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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Short spoken excerpt from a YouTube interview where Russ Heddleston (CEO at Distill) recounts attending San Francisco VC holiday parties and describes, humorously, that he started Docsend partly to "annoy as many venture capitalists in parallel as possible." The tone is anecdotal and playful, explaining motivation for founding the company.

First year at the holiday Christmas parties for VCs in San Francisco, because I've always had a lot of friends in vc. People ask, hey, what are you working on? Be like, oh, I just started this company called Docsend. And they'd be like, docsend, I hate Docsend. And someone else would hear me, Docsend. They'd come over, you guys talk about Docsend. I hate Docsend. And then when people would ask me, like, why did you start this company? And my cheeky response was, I just wanted to annoy as many venture capitalists in parallel as possible, and this was the best way.