Over the past week, our Twitter feeds were filled with stories that rarely get told: VCs behaving poorly in pitch meetings. Some founders even named names. What does it say about this moment that founders are publicly sharing these tales? And where are we in the spectrum of founder friendliness? Plus: OpenAI joins the IPO party with a confidential filing, Hunter Biden is the antithesis of the looksmaxxing trend, and maybe escorts are a social good? Go Knicks!

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This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from ⁠LightningPod