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Today's premium newsletter is about how the JOBS act and endless growth-driven greed is killing venture capital, with terrible returns and inflated valuations leading to a logjam of unsellable companies. The AI bubble has made things much, much worse. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-vent...

wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-venture-capital-is-killing-itself/Soundtrack: Spinnerette — A Prescription For Mankind About fourteen years ago, the government made a mistake that would allow tech companies and venture capitalists to conspire to legally scam…

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Great article as usual! Just wanted to point out what looks like a typo in the paragraph about Harvey: >It would only take four months for it to raise another $300 billion and nearly double its valuation to $5 billion Should be 300 million based on the context of the rest of the paragraph right?

Pre-JOBS act, private companies over a certain size had to do quarterly reports like a public company, forcing them onto the markets at lower valuations that allowed regular people to capture the actual value. Now VCs make them wait as long as possible. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-vent...

To understand this story, you need to understand that VC isn't in the business of backing startups. Most of the money goes to mid-to-late-stage companies. Although the size of seed rounds has grown, their share of the dealmaking pie hasn't. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-vent...

Well SOMETHING needs to kill venture capital… Whatever “good” thing it was meant to be is long dead. See: The true purpose of a policy is what it does, not what it says (or was claimed about it by people pushing it into a legislative vote).