Venture capital is the wrong money for an open source business, because its constraints make it hard to stay true to the mission.

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• Nuclear plants should be financed with venture equity rather than project finance, because what is left is technology-execution risk and American venture capital is the best in the world at underwriting that. ITIsaiah Taylor15 Aug 2026startupsventure capital
• Nvidia's real miss was not seeing that a frontier lab could never be funded by venture capital, so its compute suppliers had to become its investors. JHJensen Huang15 Apr 2026startupsventure capital
• Only a fifth of venture-backed founders are still CEO three years after going public, and the standard documents their lawyers gave them are why. EREric Ries10 May 2026startupsventure capital
• The way to stay small is never to take other people's money: the moment you do, they want the largest return, and the enterprise playbook follows. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025startupsventure capital
• Venture money ruins software: raise a fortune, hire hundreds, and crap comes out, because the funnel that forces hard choices is gone. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Jul 2026startupsventure capital

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