
No product, no pitch, just buzzwords: Indian-origin UC Berkeley grad claims he tricked VCs with fake startup idea – Times of India
NEW DELHI: An Indian-origin UC Berkeley graduate has sparked a debate about the startup funding ecosystem after claiming he received responses from 27 venture capitalists—four of whom asked for a meeting—by posing as a fake founder with no real product or pitch, but with the right mix of elite buzzwords.Bhavye Khetan, who earned a bachelor’s…