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A comment on How Not to Die (2007).

Re:How Not to Die (2007) by excalibur on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:07PM (#21507106)
> When we were visiting Yahoo to talk about being acquired, we had to interrupt everything and borrow one of their conference rooms to talk down an investor who was about to back out of a new funding round we needed to stay alive. So even in the middle of getting rich we were fighting off the grim reaper.

This sounds like it was pulled directly from an episode of Silicon Valley.

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Re:How Not to Die (2007) by chubot on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:34PM (#21507409)
Well maybe it was the reverse :) Silicon Valley producers had many consultants in Silicon Valley.

And there was even a podcast I saw on YouTube where a former YC company founder worked for Silicon Valley after his startup shutdown. He moved down to LA as far as I remember.

Oh yeah here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kk03M3XfVY

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silic...

Or they could have just read PG's blog. The writers got a lot of stuff right so I wouldn't doubt it. Though I guess I was surprised there was no "ycombinator" in the show. There was Erlich and his hacker house / accelerator, who doesn't seem a lot like PG :)

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Re:How Not to Die (2007) by bumblebee4 on Monday November 11, 2019 @02:14PM (#21507863)
As an investor, won't you pull this move just to get better conditions? The founders are fixated on closing the deal so they will put up with almost any condition that you throw at them?
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Re:How Not to Die (2007) by excalibur on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:24PM (#21509549)
The investors in the series would.
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