One's measure of these VCs changes quite distinctly when you change from viewing them through the prism of leaders of the industry to viewing them as self-inter

One's measure of these VCs changes quite distinctly when you change from viewing them through the prism of leaders of the industry to viewing them as self-interested marketeers acting as gatekeepers of a subset of wealth with the express purpose of their working role as the endeavor of inflating their own wealth. They haven't gone hungry in quite some time, and it's really been showing more and more as time goes on and their memories of when they started out are fading.