I've always thought that one of the ways to stop such stupid ideas/companies is to follow the money and potentially black-list the VC's that are helping to prop

I've always thought that one of the ways to stop such stupid ideas/companies is to follow the money and potentially black-list the VC's that are helping to propagate a bad idea. Digging into this on Crunchbase, it turns out that some of the funders behind W3W are HUGE names[0,1]: * Intel * Daimler * Sony To me, this lends credence to the idea that many investors are either just in it for the money--despite what their mission statements say, or just plane stupid. 0 - https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/organizations/num_investors/what3words https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/... 1 - https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/organizations/num_lead_investors/what3words https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/...