Sluggish Ventures hosted a three-hour “Etiquette Ending College” this week, protecting subjects like the proper handshake, public talking, and workplace decorum. There was even a trend present with fashions exhibiting off completely different seems for various events, after which a closing lesson about caviar and wine.
The San Francisco Standard reports that just a few hundred founders utilized for the free program, held on the 4 Seasons in SF’s monetary district, with 50 founders accepted. A lot of the attendees have been male.
Apparently the thought began as a joke, with Sluggish Ventures sussing out curiosity at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. And whereas YC CEO Garry Tan reportedly advised founders to not attend, Tan posted on X that he has “no beef with Sluggish Ventures,” whereas writing, “You don’t want ending faculty. You have to construct one thing nice, make your customers glad, and have craftsmanship.”
One unnamed founder advised The Commonplace that they attended to discover ways to be “much less feral.”
“Tech is now not playful and cute,” Sluggish Ventures common associate Sam Lessin reportedly advised the viewers. “It’s taking folks’s jobs and altering environments. Everybody’s threatened by it, which implies it is advisable be like, ‘I’m right here and respectful,’ versus ‘I’m right here and deliberately disrespectful.’”
