(finishing chatting with a vc) “yeah anyway that’s my main thesis for why someone would be an absolute idiot to raise money instead of bootstrap something in the current meta, VCs are leeches who’ll force you to make decisions that benefit them not you”

idk, some ideas have bigger J curves than others. There'll always be a market for taking risk capital upfront in exchange for a share of the upside longer term

totally agree with you on both parts! i know it sounds like a big generalization but the context was them telling me about a new investment that i was like “…” — i am hoping ease of getting started makes ideas that need investment more interesting and ambitious

bad founders will run their companies into the ground, with or without VC