A lot of the LPs who do this are doing it to get close to celebrities and power. If you're a founder, what's the harm in taking some money from one of these firms? Yeah. What's the harm if they're your lead investor? Well, are they going to signal to people in your next round to invest? So a celebrity doing your series A, the whole series A, that's going to be a negative signal to your series B. They just call them self play. One word's good launch play tag.

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