Comment by svnt

I think it speaks to beginner mistakes on the part of the founders.

There are some exceptions but the typical demo day is absolutely stitched together from other peoples’ work. The difference is most hide this fact, instead of working in the clear on “open source” without understanding that it is meant to be a contribution from you to the community, because to finance bros that sounds like a joke.

The whole thing has gotten so washed out that they either thought that this is what people actually do, or they thought no one was going to look at their repo (for a coding product!).