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NullTuples

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18. But...but...that's not how venture capital darling "disruptors" work!
Mon Apr 24, 2023, 09:34 PM
Apr 2023

The unspoken part is that while start ups ostensibly "disrupt" how things are traditionally done, the real benefit they bring to large capitalists is chaos in the market segment. After some threshold of investor size, volatility becomes more profitable in the short term than building a solid company that does useful things. And the future in their eyes consists of unlimited short terms.

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