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Also, VCs are herd animals.

Most of them are driven by hype and market trends, leading them to overgeneralize and make inaccurate predictions.

They swayed by the latest buzz in the industry and invest in companies that may not have a sustainable business model.



They do this in the hopes of flipping to a bigger fish. They understand how bubbles work.


We'll see if they understand, when valuations need to start being adjusted on the books...

I'm skeptical if someone understands steamrollers if they choose to stand in front of one.

Time, will tell.


Being as how most of their analytical grunt-work is being done by fresh-faced graduates this should be expected.


It's the other way round most of the time - partners select / nudge based on social proof and "intuition" and the analysts provide ex-post analysis to justify it with "hard data"




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