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You have hedge funds like Tiger Global who are now leading/investing in early stage rounds. Anyone with capital can now play “VC”.

• greesil 4y ago
  Ah yes the "dumb money"
• SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
  I like that better than anyone who can take endless free money loans with little concern because of zero or negative interest rates can play “VC”. I can easily name a dozen companies and technologies that massively changed the world from 2000-2010 (not saying for better, but undeniable), what have we really developed that didn’t exist in 2010-2020 in this era of Free Money and “Unlimited Potential”? Hypothetical question. From my view, I’ve seen VCs come in and use capitol to build up people with good intentions or ideas, and immediately get them absorbed into the giants who are also throwing away endless free money even if their business model is awful. I’m not looking forward to hyper inflation. But I am looking forward to a slower tech market that actually has to provide something useful in order to stand out.
• julianeon 4y ago
  That's the natural state of affairs. VC just means venture capital. It's a generic thing. Any capitalist - in our society, anyone - can supply venture capital; they just have to have enough. If anything is unnatural, it's thinking of VC as something gatekept and for the elite, as opposed to a generic function which can be fulfilled by millions.