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I don’t suspect this is true, as VCs would quickly go bankrupt investing enormous amounts of money into such a startup

• jacquesm 7y ago
  VC returns are not what you think they are. There is a lot of dumb money floating around and the long term returns of quite a few funds are much lower than what you might think. A couple of funds outperform the remainder quite handily which results in an average that looks acceptable but quite a few people lost a lot of $ on becoming an LP of a badly managed fund. That won't stop the fund managers from making out like bandits, the carry may be nil but the management fees will more than make up for that. Beware of investing in funds where the fund managers do not have substantial skin in the game.
  • coldpie 7y ago
    > There is a lot of dumb money floating around I like to refer to funding and acquisitions in terms of Juiceros, equivalent to $120M. Instagram was purchased for about 8.3 Juiceros.
    • jacquesm 7y ago
      Hehe, that's funny. I may adopt that, but at the level that I'm investing I'll have to use uJuiceros or there will be way too many zeros.
    • theandrewbailey 7y ago
      I do the same, but I measure in terms of Instagrams. I might take your idea for sub-Instagram units, though measuring by units of $120 million adds more overhead than units of $1 billion.