[pontus]

The fact that some think there's a distinction between a startup and a sustainable business says a lot about SV. A startup should be sustainable too. There's a distinction between a quickly growing business or a slowly growing business for sure, and sometimes it makes sense to forgo the sustainable part in the short term in order to promote growth, but to think that a startup somehow should not aim to be sustainable leads to really perverse incentives.

[nowherebeen]

I think this concept was popularized by VCs like SoftBank. It also makes me wonder how much of a tech bubble we are in and what happens when it finally bursts.

[Rastonbury]

The appearance of being a bubble is inherent in the VC business model.. VCs know full well that 9/10 startups they fund are likely to fail, they make returns out of the 1/10. The median funded startup is a failure. People look at this an think "all this money and all this failure, its going to end badly, these investors are gonna get burnt!" yes some do, but even the most stellar firms have more misses than hits.

[nowherebeen]

> all this money and all this failure, its going to end badly, these investors are gonna get burnt

No, I think all these startups employees with families to feed are going to be out of a job. VCs fund startups that shouldn’t have been funded in the first place. They create a market that artificially props up unsustainable businesses. This video is a good explanation of how the VC world actually works. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVsdlHslfI