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Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com https://kvinogradov.com. I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra soft

Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com https://kvinogradov.com. I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra software startups, and I spend money by donating to nonprofit open source projects :-) Also, it is not a VC who run things, but the team which consists of people with diverse backgrounds (founders/executives/devs x OSS/nonprofit) and the donor community (which everybody can join): https://endowment.dev/community/ https://endowment.dev/community/

verdverm 7mo ago
It's the VC "class", similar to the Epstein Class, nowhere near as bad or vile, but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise
- dewey 7mo ago
  With your strong feelings against VC, I hope you are aware that HN is the message board of one of the leading VC firms? > but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise That's a pretty big leap you are doing there.
  - verdverm 7mo ago
    You can click my handle to see I've been a part of the HN community longer than yourself, I'm fully aware of the many associations I have /rant'd on YC and the dilution of help to their startups after they stopped heeding their own advice to "do things that don't scale"
    - whit537 7mo ago
      > I've been a part of the HN community longer than Dang, got me beat, too. :) gg
      - verdverm 7mo ago
        It's not a competition, but it is faux pax for GGP to make the comment the way they did. I would hope you all would know that having been here more than a decade