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>The founders, employees, investors all get their liquidity on day one (and even with vesting schedules on tokens, VCs have been selling their interest in their
by alex_c 5y ago
>The founders, employees, investors all get their liquidity on day one (and even with vesting schedules on tokens, VCs have been selling their interest in their un-vested stakes). There's no incentive to build a business. The only incentive that exists is to pump the token at all costs. Your only incentive is to build a "community" and "enthusiasm" and spend your entire budget on marketing. Anything you spend building a business is a complete waste and sets you at a disadvantage relative to your peers.
Makes me think of Star Citizen. I will admit I don't follow it very closely, but the cynical view seems to be they've found a very successful business model of hyping up new features and crowdfunding by selling in-game ships while the game is eternally in development, rather than building and selling a finished game.
- magicjosh 5y agoStar Citizen certainly does seem like that! The question is, is this fundamentally because of the liquidity of these mechanisms? Or is there an opportunity to build working funding systems that work better than the VC process? Is VC simply the ultimate evolution of funding impactful businesses?
- pjc50 5y agoIn retrospect, they were extremely ahead of the game, and they didn't even have to waste staggering amounts of energy to sell people virtual items.