What Tom Preston-Werner thinks about venture capital

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1. 4 Apr 2022

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

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   Their wordsWhen 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.

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