“I’m going to start raising money for my startup,” a student explained as she chatted with me at the end of one of my entrepreneurship classes. “You mentioned you’ve raised money for startups in the past. Before I begin fundraising, what’s the most important thing I should know about venture capitalists?”

The student surely wanted a constructive, actionable answer she could use to help her with the unfamiliar and complex process of fundraising. But she asked for my advice just as I’d finished a two-plus hour class in front of a bunch of Gen Z-ers. It’s an entire generation that learns best by watching 30 seconds video clips, so I was probably in the wrong mindset to answer such a complex question. Rather than giving her the thoughtful, detailed answer she needed, I gave something more akin to a pithy, tweetable quip. READ MORE