People running startups shouldn't be so proud of raising capital; it's silly child's play. Instead, you should focus on your craft and your product. The entire

People running startups shouldn't be so proud of raising capital; it's silly child's play. Instead, you should focus on your craft and your product. The entire concept of corporations and shareholder capitalism is what is wrong with human civilization. It destroys the environment and reduces harmony in society. And mindlessly taking in capital, whether VC-funded or not, creates overhead and bloat, along with so-called "bullshit jobs." You still have the same number of productive developers, for example, as you had in the early garage startup phase. Only now, a bureaucratic machine is created around them, making things even slower and less effective than before. Every product that transitions from a startup to a bloated corporation produces a less useful product now. Look at Slack, Figma, Notion— they are all stagnating.