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Comment by andrepd

2 months ago

Pre-prepared demos don't impress me.

By that logic sport athletes don’t impress you. Movies don’t impress you. Theater doesn’t impress you. Your date won’t impress you. Becoming a parent won’t impress you.

Most things in life take years of preparation.

  • The issue with preprepared demos is that you can carefully curate the scenario and make choices that you know are likely to show the best outcome, out of a wide range of possibilities. If you know your model (or VC product demo etc) performs poorly under certain conditions, you simply avoid them. This is a reason to be somewhat skeptical about demos.

  • No, the logic would be that a football player's 40 time doesn't impress, because you want to see the on field performance. Or a movie trailer doesn't impress, because it's only meant to get you to watch the movie which might be trash. A first date won't impress you, it will take multiple dates to understand and love a human.

    etc.