There is a lot of competition in the venture capital industry. If you are a visible entrepreneur, you have to crack this knowledge. It’s very important to thoroughly understand the landscape, because then you are helping your boss, the venture capitalist with making important decisions. Everyone has a special skill, a domain expertise. It’s very important to understand that line and not cross. Because crossing it could have consequences. Hence the adoption of the snake bite pattern. There is copying of ideas, bringing the ego and self-esteem of upcoming entrepreneurs down, spying, haunting, talking trash among groups for distractions, calling, disrupting the time and place of work, threats and all sorts of patterns that exist in the industry. However, it’s very important to look at these patterns but don’t react. In the court of law, the first thing the judges examine is emotional traits. So then there has to be other ways to solve this problem. Anything that is a problem, is something for us to learn from. Hence, no need to be emotional, rather play the emotions. In Vedanta, we call it ‘Krishna Lila’, the ‘Play of Krishna’. God puts situations in front of us, just do the best we can. I have gotten a lot of training from yoga ashrams and schools around emotional intelligence. My mom, a lawyer herself for over thirty five years, told me recently, ‘Bilal, just watch your emotions in front of the judge’. So then we have to come up with alternative ways to communicate with very negative situations. A lot of venture capitalists, interested in investing wants to see how far an entrepreneur will go, fight the battle of life with startups, when angry situations are put in front. The solution is the snake bite pattern. Find the weakness of the opponent. Come up with a one line statement. But a statement that really envelops their weakness. There is no argument after that statement. The opponent gets quiet because it is truth. You just hit their burning nerve. If they fight the weakness, it makes them weak, angry and you know it. If they accept the weakness, you might see them again, victorious over their weakness and bright. Those are the entrepreneurs you want, not the ones that fight you for giving them a blessing. The guru rule is, only give to one that is looking for it. Otherwise, you are just wasting your time and energy. You can tell a lot about a person by just looking at their aura, not words.