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by frozenport 478 days ago
lol these guys aren’t vcs

Term sheets from vcs increasingly include a “don’t do an ico”

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A16z was leading pump and dump schemes in 2020 - 2021. Not sure if they are still doing that in 2025.
No true scotsman fallacy

There are many VCs in the crypto space, and there are many kinds of liquidity arrangements in the crypto space, a subset of them are coin related and snapshots are the preferred way, now. ICO-type ones are pretty rare but the VCs one debut at extremely high valuations for the crypto space

A VC saying “dont do a coin” which is probably what you meant, is also probably not funding a crypto venture. yeah, that makes sense to say you arent investing in a meme coin, since seemingly everyone with a platform sullies their brand this way