Recruiter wants to see my W-2 before scheduling 1st round call with Founder

Title says it... Am I crazy to think this is a nuts request? I spent 20 minutes talking with a recruiter (he cold outreached to me). He spent the first 10-12 minutes just hitting me with questions on quota attainment, top 3 deals: size, who was economic buyer, how'd you sell it, why'd they buy, what quarter did it close, etc. Nitty gritty details.

I stop him midway through his interrogation and say, look, you outreached to me, what role and what company did you want to talk to me about? He shares a bit about the role & company, it is somewhat a fit with what I do now, but no compelling upside. He is trying to get me to take 30 minute call with the founder and then springs on me that I need to provide him my W-2 for last year.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm not sending any recruiter my W-2. Fuck that. I could maybe see early in a career path, but not after 15 years of success, mutiple president's club, etc. I get that all sales people lie and this is one way to knock out the wanna-be's. Maybe I just don't have a compelling enough reason with this opportunity - it was basically at best a lateral move comp-wise and I'd be selling to smaller companies than I do now.