VCs act wise as everyone in start-ups gets fired
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VCs act wise as everyone in start-ups gets fired
But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game for allocation in competitive deals. Incredibly, being an investor has become one of the highest status jobs in Silicon Valley — higher even than playing an important operating role at a great company. This has led to an over
... See moreMarkie Wagner • Choose Good Quests
The past several years have been characterized by higher and higher private company valuations, which, when the public markets for tech companies reset over the past few months, left venture capital investors that had invested in later stage private rounds in the red on these investments. In other words, not dissimilar from the issues that employee... See more
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • Employee-VC Alignment
Everyone in the room had been building their businesses in boom times, with the market only going up in the half decade since the recession. There would be a correction,