20VC: Musk's $TRN Pay Package Broken Down | Ramp Hits $1BN ARR and Brex Hits $700M: Who Wins | OpenAI's $10BN Secondary Sale | Atlassian Buys The Browser Company for $610M | ASML Lead Roun into Mistral at $14BN Valuation

The real truth is the buyer has cunningly eviscerated the brains and the heart of the company and left the carcass and we're gonna pretend it's real, but it's it's dead as the dodo. And everyone knows it, but no one's gonna go onto record saying it. If scale was for sale for 28 billion, Brett's gotta be worth 56 billion. I didn't leave Hollywood, Hollywood left me. This is venture capital today. And this is the greatest Wealth creation, wealth hunt, greed hunt, venture hunt, ever. Venture rounds are all getting done on Saturdays. Forget about no diligence being done two years ago. Now diligence isn't even being attempted. I think the best control today would be if more founders that

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