Brilliant story.

That being said, Page should learn to be a better writer. Take this, for example:

As for my right ear, I was born deaf in it lol. This was not a fun experience to say the least.

Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud," and the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence. "To say the least" is a cliché and should be eliminated.

Anyone could be guilty of these writing sins and in a large enough sample of my own writing I'm sure someone could find clichés. Nonetheless they're pervasive enough to detract from the piece. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get Write Right! (my favorite short, pithy writing book) and William Zissner's On Writing Well.

Your site doesn't show anything without javascript enabled. You might want to have some graceful fallback of some kind.

There's a good general sales lesson here: "research" is not "preparation", even though they're commonly assumed to be the same thing in practice, as was the case here.

It's hard to craft a viable proposition if you don't know your target, but simply knowing your target doesn't mean you have a viable proposition. Ultimately, the OP's pitch to Moritz ("my poker success can be translate to success as a venture capitalist") was interesting enough to land him a meeting, but not compelling enough to close the deal.

Your sign in/sign up doesn't offer an option to sign up...

I loved the email pitch. Seemed to the point and anyone reading it was clear who you are and what you could do.

As Mark Twain said in a letter, "if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter".

Still a long way to go for me but I can see my pitches are becoming better. I happy to start with a long winded sentence now and then gradually cut it down.

Cool story, but fix your site! You're missing out on valuable HN exposure because of the general feeling of incompleteness.

"Stay pathologically optimistic." Love it.

"Tinder for jobs" ... doublefacepalm.gif. good luck though maybe I'm wrong.

sup bro - nice post.

Nice story!