There was a moment 5-6 yrs ago where VCs would boast on Twitter that they read (or even respond to) every cold email That is completely untenable now because of bulk investor email lists I get 30+ of these things a day, probably sent to 10,000 other people Sorry, but I'm busy building a company. And nobody is entitled to my time if they're not going to at least take the effort to write an individualized note—or better yet get a warm intro. I'm not hard to get intro'd to

Thankfully @trysunflower helps me keep my inbox sane We're certainly not optimizing for my inbox, because it's an outlier. But everyone, VC or not, gets an inordinate amount of inbound slop these days We're fighting fire with fire here. Inbox Zero ain't gonna cut it anymore 🌻