I suspect we shall see debt used increasingly in venture-backed businesses. My hope is that operators will constrain its use to areas where debt is a more natural fit. Personally, I’m not there yet on its application to SaaS revenue.
In contrast to VC - where over the past 30 years of software, there’s been a circular “we shape our tools, and then they shape us” coevolution around how equity works - this hasn’t happened for debt yet. We haven’t figured out the right atomic unit