Because you aren't building a business. You are creating an asset you can sell. Businesses are great and I don't think most people are trying to talk down abou

Because you aren't building a business. You are creating an asset you can sell. Businesses are great and I don't think most people are trying to talk down about them. But VCs are trying to build an asset they can sell. Because when you sell an company that has a high rate of projected growth you get all that money now as opposed to waiting 20 years. There are plenty of investments that pay out solid returns for 20+ years. VC type funds are attractive in no small part because they pay out in a shorter period of time. It really has little to do with building a business outside of the fact that the asset happens to be a company.