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i wonder, how many people would confess that they want to be someone (i.e., businessmen, or a vc) to have a boatload of money, a home on tropical island and fly
by fedd 16y ago
i wonder, how many people would confess that they want to be someone (i.e., businessmen, or a vc) to have a boatload of money, a home on tropical island and fly business class / private jet?
if i were a vc, i probably would not like this confession. i'd better encourage young people to value the startup life itself.
- qq66 16y agoYou're right, and that's because VC is a hits-driven business and none of the founders of major companies (MS/Google/Facebook/Oracle sized companies) have ever been in it for the money. If they had, they would have sold their companies when they were worth $100M and sailed off into the sunset. However, on Wall Street, this type of attitude is highly valued -- you want to find the young kid with massive insecurities who wants to have $1 billion and when he gets it will want $10 billion. You give him a desk and tax his earnings.