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Free as in no time or labor spent by themselves. At least that is what I think he meant



It turns out being an institutional investor is a fulltime job. It's quite ridiculous for GP to believe otherwise.


Be that as it may, this is pedantic quibbling outside of the point the GGP post author was actually trying to make: speculative pressure by investors (lazy or otherwise) conflicts with the aim of stable long-term equilibrium doing +/- one thing well.

If you actually care about building a sustainable business, not Unicorns and moonshots and other things investors want you to become and do, don't take investment, or at least not much.




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