A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

VCs are similarly disinterested in growing modest, sustainable businesses. In fact, a company that grows a healthy 5% a year is in some ways worse for a VC than a company that simply implodes on a moonshot. VCs have derogatory names for these otherwise seemingly healthy businesses: the walking dead, or worse yet, lifestyle businesses (when you say

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Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens. Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money. Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it. Company culture is what goes without saying. There are no real rules, only laws. Suc

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