[vishnugupta]

You’d be surprised how much vibe is there in VC investing.

When one is under the grip of irrational exuberance and FOMO due diligence goes out the window.

For example look at Sequoia’s investment into FTX and article about Sam that accompanied.

[Nevermark]

True, but this is not what might be considered an unexamined company. You can be sure it's under all its investors' microscopes.

If for no other reason than they would rather spend their days procrastinating on everything else, so they can obsess over some of the most interesting numbers they will ever see.

[casey2]

FTX was examined, investors thought it was impressive that Sam was playing Bronze ELO LOL while in meetings.

[GoblinSlayer]

Soros too believes that traders are retarded.

[fuzzfactor]

Well if you've got billions of dollars just sitting around doing nothing, and many many more billions of dollars that are performing wonderfully, you should be able to afford throwing a few billion away if that's what ends up happening.

[c0rruptbytes]

yes but Sequoia invested like 200m, we're talking like Google investing 30b...very different scales and bureaucracies