I can give you one worse: a board member (and deal lead, from <redacted> Ventures) telling me there are only 3 people on the board.
3 months later a month before the deal is supposed to close, 2 more board members come out of the woodwork and shut the deal down. No idea they were on the board. Was outright lied to. (I have the call recordings to back that up)
Mind you these are top tier brand-name VCs. They hide behind their reputation, and it works because people like me are extremely hesitant to write comments like this calling out specific firms and people.
ugh sorry to hear that. That squeeze I mentioned before (lowball offer at "this is what it will cost us to copy you") was, thankfully, for a company that we bootstrapped so we had no VC pushing us to close. And we bootstrapped because of my experience at my previous, VC-backed company.
3 months later a month before the deal is supposed to close, 2 more board members come out of the woodwork and shut the deal down. No idea they were on the board. Was outright lied to. (I have the call recordings to back that up)
Mind you these are top tier brand-name VCs. They hide behind their reputation, and it works because people like me are extremely hesitant to write comments like this calling out specific firms and people.