Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags.
A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin of some Silicon Valley venture capitalists by quoting their words back to them verbatim.....MUCH MORE
In four short months, @VCBrags has amassed more than 31,000 followers and prompted a number of VCs to block it — including luminaries like Marc Andreessen and Paul Graham — all without saying a single word. Its entire shtick: Retweet boastful posts from VCs, and top them with three withering hand-clap emojis.
"I think it's hilarious," said Day One Ventures founder Masha Drokova via Twitter DM. Her tweet about the two-year anniversary of her firm was retweeted with the three claps by @VCBrags in January. "If I were a founder, I'd never take an investor lacking self-irony and it's funny to see how many VCs upset with this account."....
