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Sahil S
Feb 18, 2026
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👋 Hey, Sahil here — Welcome back to Venture Curator, where we explore how top investors think, how real founders build, and the strategies shaping tomorrow’s companies.

  • Annoying questions from VC & how to answer them.

  • How to price your AI product in a post-SaaS world?

  • Is PE no longer your exit plan in 2026?


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Annoying questions from VC & how to answer them.

If you are fundraising or looking to fundraise for your startup, you will see annoying questions from VC :). Not only this, you will find some other things like - I don’t think this can be a venture scale business, We’d be interested when we see a bit more traction, Come back when you have a lead, etc.… and most founders don’t know how to think on this questions and proceed with it.

So in this post, I will try to answer how you can think about these questions:

  1. What if Google Builds It?

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