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Venture Capital - Silicon Valley Ponzi Scheme - Chamath Palihapitiya

MAK - Mudassir Akber Khan · 308.6K views · 2019-11-12 · 13:10

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A 13-minute clip from This Week in Startups in which Chamath Palihapitiya describes venture capital as a Ponzi-like scheme driven by fees and inflated valuations among VCs.

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Cited in threads about startups, VC and private equity as an insider's description of how VC economics work, though commenters note he is self-serving.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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nowherebeen · 2020-12 · Recommendation

> 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. [VIDEO]

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stillwithit · 2023-11 · Reference

Yeh he was setting up another funding funnel MS -> OpenAI -> his AI chips [VIDEO] Make it appear on paper like there’s proper separation of concerns but really building a web to form monopoly with MS’s backing because they can’t get in trouble if some startup is doing it. Just more shell company games to play the system, screw everyone else by using their churches to claim dominion over all of tech. These guys are too obvious now. The elders who don’t know better are dying off leaving behind a more technically literate voter base.

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jiveturkey · 2022-06 · Reference

Not a new understanding. Chamath Palihapitiya talked about this in 2019, and others before then although I don't have references. [VIDEO] Warning, video is self-serving but simplistically, this is part of it. To be clear, the VCs understand what they are doing. They aren't fleecing themselves.

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