Steve Cohen Gets Kick From Scaring The Hell Out Of Cash-Strapped Entrepreneurs
ByYou’ve been honing your pitch. Practicing your answers to the likely questions in the mirror. Poring through your deck, making sure every little thing is perfect. You think you’ve got a billion-dollar idea. Maybe it’s a blockchain play. Or a way to trick poor young people into playing the stock market. Or a crowd-sourced algorithmic-trading venture. Or a way to have autonomous cars not kill people.
You’ve spent hours rehearsing the details of your plan with some ominous-sounding folks. But now you’ve flown in from Silicon Valley or driven up to Stamford for a chance to convince the principals. You slowly pass down a stone-wall-lined street, along which sit a few low-slung suburban office buildings. You near the water, hang a left into the specified parking lot and are escorted into a conference room. There’s a long wooden table with a downtrodden-looking investment team, sitting on both sides, and a tall, leather-backed chair, turned away from you, at its head. You plug your laptop into the video system and bring up the first card of your deck. The high-back chair turns and you swallow hard…
Steve Cohen Gets Kick From Scaring The Hell Out Of Cash-Strapped Entrepreneurs
