When investors reject founders for seemingly stupid reasons, it may be because the investors are actually stupid, or because they dislike the founder and are making up the reason.

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• Asking a referring investor whether they personally invested puts the startup being referred at a disadvantage. ZHZach Holman5 Aug 2026startupsinvesting
• Investors avoid hard tech for its capital intensity while the largest returns available are in exactly those physical markets. EDEli Dourado14 Oct 2024startupsinvesting
• Investors in the largest tech companies have voluntarily surrendered their governance rights, leaving founders with unchecked power. ADAswath Damodaran3 Dec 2025startupsinvesting
• 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 2026startupsinvesting
• 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 2026startupsinvesting

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