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Taking venture capital funding pushes a company toward extreme binary outcomes and pressures it to extract more value from customers.

Drawn from what Tom Preston-Werner said

Subjectsstartupsventure capital
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venture capital Raising money and what it does to the product: the funnel that forces hard choices, and what happens without it.

What Tom Preston-Werner actually said

  1. Tom Preston-Werner Programmer and entrepreneur
    When you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.

    ↗Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com

    4 Apr 2022

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