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by mdonahoe 2291 days ago
YC (and other VC) doesn’t seem like selling shovels to me.

If you’re selling shovels, you can succeed without any of your customers ever finding gold again. You happily sell shovels even if you knew the customers could never find gold.

When you’re buying percentages of multiple companies, you need somebody to succeed for you to succeed.