Yeah he was cringe.
His position reminds me of a negotiation I had with a relatively well known bitcoin VC fund* in 2022. We agreed over the course of several months in the “dating” phase but when the term sheet started to take shape all the “agreed” terms were substituted with VC standards that fuck over the entrepreneur.
When they tell you the contract language / regulatory language doesn’t matter, that’s precisely when it REALLY matters.
*Not Ten31