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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I genuinely just don't understand what's going on in the tech sector anymore

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Feels like the dotcom era all over again, but they're better at stringing the scam along this time. Enough of the people need to believe the lie that it's getting artificial longevity.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

VC funding is basically gambling, trying to find the next billion dollar company. So they throw money at anything that has any semblance of traction to get in early and cash out when the time comes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is the exact same behavior that caused the dot com bubble. VC funding was throwing money at any and every dot com business, in the hopes that it would explode and lead to profits.

All it did was massively overvalue the dot com companies, which caused a bubble when people finally realized they were overvalued and VC investors turned off the spigot of free money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

and then the government fucked up and tried to save some of the filthy corps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gambling with OTHER PEOPLE'S money.

You win, you take a cut. You lose. Someone else suffers.

These people destroy everything for greed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how did they get access to other people's money?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Probably by being attractive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You know it’s bad when the guy previously worked at Coinbase