Agreed. The main problem is you can lie and game the VC's. "It's called future-selling and everyone does it", a biz-guy once told me. It's not a lie, we are "hacking the interview". Coders like hacking, right ? You see, just rebrand "lies", muddle the context and now your type-A biz co-founder can say anything while his engineer co-founder sits their quietly wondering if this really is normal. I've also heard "I'll stop doing that if it makes you uncomfortable" but once it is part of a person's personality, it can become pathological. They don't even know when they are acting this way.

The disconnect comes from engineering environments where there is no Alpha and Beta mindset, only varying degrees of competence. Trust your instincts and conscience. The VC only has a limited time for due-diligence.