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I don't understand the Silicon Valley philosophy. Why should people be rewarded for being reckless to such extent? It reminds me of a point by Nassim Taleb whi
by jondubois 9y ago
I don't understand the Silicon Valley philosophy. Why should people be rewarded for being reckless to such extent?
It reminds me of a point by Nassim Taleb which claims that if you look at the absolute top securities traders at any given time, they are usually ones who took massive poorly-calculated risks which happened to work out - The best traders in the long run are usually not the most prominent ones. They get smaller rewards over long periods of time but most of them end their careers with a net gain for their clients.
Unfortunately, because VCs are themselves reckless, they think that recklessness is a virtue and only invest in it. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The fact that 9 out of 10 startups fail is merely the result of this attitude that VCs have. They managed to turn this terrible ratio into some kind of industry standard. Maybe it's actually extremely inefficient.