"Well, you know, there's people who are very dispassionate in their evaluations of ideas and who would pride themselves on not being persuadable by naked seduction.  I'm not one of those people.  I heard once that all mental faculties are correlated with each other; this also ought to hold for seductive excellence and good taste in startup ideas.  And at least one of you is probably smarter than I am.  Therefore, going with the opinion of whoever does the best job of seducing me is perfectly valid reasoning."

"You've got opinions, anything is fair game when it comes to persuading me of them."

"Well, you know, there's people who are very dispassionate in their evaluations of ideas and who would pride themselves on not being persuadable by naked seduction.  I'm not one of those people.  I heard once that all mental faculties are correlated with each other; therefore, so are seductive excellence and good taste in startup ideas.  And at least one of you is probably smarter than I am.  So going with the opinion of whoever does the best job of seducing me is probably the wisest course of action."

"You've got opinions, anything is fair game when it comes to persuading me of them."