TWIST VC Roundtable: Startup Valuations, Secondary Markets & the YC Revenue Illusion | E2137
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This is the Y combinator strategy. Sell to other Y combinator companies. Now, in some cases, startups are the best customer because startups will take a chance on that. That is actually really good advice. But then the gamesmanship that happened was you buy my product, I buy yours.
Can I get five people to buy mine? And and people kind of created these little round robins that I don't want to say it's unethical, but it's unethical. Paid. Thoughts. I'm gonna throw that one too.
If you don't want to like s, you know, throw bombs. I don't care. Am I I'm already rich. I'm already on my fourth fund. If I can't raise another fund, I can just use my own money.
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