Sluggish Ventures hosted a three-hour “Etiquette Ending Faculty” this week, overlaying matters like the proper handshake, public talking, and workplace decorum. There was even a style present with fashions exhibiting off totally different appears for various events, after which a closing lesson about caviar and wine.
The San Francisco Normal experiences that a number of 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 had been male.
Apparently the concept began as a joke, with Sluggish Ventures sussing out curiosity at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. And whereas YC CEO Garry Tan reportedly instructed founders to not attend, Tan posted on X that he has “no beef with Sluggish Ventures,” whereas writing, “You don’t want ending college. It’s worthwhile to construct one thing nice, make your customers comfortable, and have craftsmanship.”
One unnamed founder instructed The Normal that they attended to learn to be “much less feral.”
“Tech is not playful and cute,” Sluggish Ventures common companion Sam Lessin reportedly instructed the viewers. “It’s taking folks’s jobs and altering environments. Everybody’s threatened by it, which implies you want to be like, ‘I’m right here and respectful,’ versus ‘I’m right here and deliberately disrespectful.’”
