Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Based on my experience with venture capital, I’m not convinced venture capital has ever produced anything worthwhile.

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      1 year ago

      Couldn’t agree more. My takeaway from three years working at a VC is that investors are fucking idiots, and lying to get investment is basically normal.

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        1 year ago

        My favorite anecdote from “the cold start problem” is how zoom got funding not because they thought it was a good idea - the investors thought it was a solved problem - but because they were personally friends with the founder of zoom.

        That’s the quality of decisions we’re dealing with.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a bit myopic. VC is just a fancy word for large financial backer.

      You can basically credit the entire age of discovery (America, Australia, etc.) to “VC” in the form of kings and wealthy elite financing voyages.

      I think modern VC goes awry when they become defacto decision makers for the venture in question.

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      1 year ago

      Except for funding the majority of the companies that exist, you mean

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        1 year ago

        By shear numbers, most companies are small mom and pop owned businesses.

        Edit: The VC shills are out in force. Go read an economics paper if you’re serious about learning something.

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          1 year ago

          Do you have a source for the claim that VC funded companies would have been replaced by equivalent companies if VCs did not exist? I find that somewhat hard to believe.