[dimmke]

I think it's funny that we're constantly reckoning with the issues that venture capital causes to various things in tech on a website that's funded and maintained by a venture capital fund.

It can't be all bad, right? More and more, it seems like VC is the only way you can go in tech unless you have a really specific business model.

[sameoldtune]

It’s funny you say that, considering VC funding tends to elicit a “very specific” kind of business model—a kind of “consumer goodwill pump-and-dump.”

[__loam]

Most businesses do not need and should not get vc funding. YC themselves say this: https://youtu.be/D81y-kh11oI