My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire
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That being said, Page should learn to be a better writer. Take this, for example:
As for my right ear, I was born deaf in it lol. This was not a fun experience to say the least.
Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud," and the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence. "To say the least" is a cliché and should be eliminated.
Anyone could be guilty of these writing sins and in a large enough sample of my own writing I'm sure someone could find clichés. Nonetheless they're pervasive enough to detract from the piece. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get Write Right! (my favorite short, pithy writing book) and William Zissner's On Writing Well.
That being said, it seems like a pretty interesting story, good for him for fighting through his problems!
Given the informal context, reminiscing about first job interviews with friends, I feel that the author wanted to share that setting with us as readers.
It may not have been the same decision you would have made, but take it as a chance to learn a new perspective rather than opening with hard criticisms.
I think it was quite clearly intended as sarcasm.
the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence
I can agree with you there though, but mostly because I don't like "lol" as a word and not because of the use of sarcasm.
How many other people can do the same thing?
In fact, it's actually irrelevant in this case that the writer made mistakes and could be better (all of us could be better). The most impressive point of the story is he showed enough courage to write to someone at the height of the VC industry and get a response and invite for a meeting.
Props to the lad.
It's hard to craft a viable proposition if you don't know your target, but simply knowing your target doesn't mean you have a viable proposition. Ultimately, the OP's pitch to Moritz ("my poker success can be translate to success as a venture capitalist") was interesting enough to land him a meeting, but not compelling enough to close the deal.
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Thanks for the heads up!
As Mark Twain said in a letter, "if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter".
Still a long way to go for me but I can see my pitches are becoming better. I happy to start with a long winded sentence now and then gradually cut it down.