It saddens me that this is the current top comment (to
me it's a good example of what PG was complaining about) - this video is a comment on VCs, not on Tesla. Tesla is just the straight man. But the top comment is nit picking on how Tesla isn't really like this pastiche. I'm much more interested in how this does or doesn't reflect the reality of VCs.
...that deals with the issue of screen writers vs. who they are trying to get to accept their ideas. Forgetting that this is a cartoon and that is an actual documentary (with quotes from screen writers) the common theme (it's a really good watch btw) is that those in charge simply "don't get it" and are somehow oppressive and total dicks to the screenwriters and have martini lunches everyday.
As if the people in charge, "Hollywood", don't have their ass on the line and were somehow chosen by lottery to decide who succeeds and who fails. And that they have absolutely no clue at all about what they are doing in their jobs.
Yet, people have managed to get beyond that in Hollywood and succeed in that business. Why is that? Perhaps because they are able to work harder and work within the system (no matter how they personally feel about it) or perhaps because their ideas really are better. (Or maybe they slept with the right person?) Who cares? That's the way the world works. You only need one VC (or angel) to get you funded (if that is what you want that is). Very simple system out there which is the golden rule. "he who has the gold rules". Stop complaining (not saying you) about VC's. That's the system and they have the power if what you want is what they have.
