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Bing dodges $100B bullet & IVP's Tom Loverro on the looming startup collapse | E1678

This Week in Startups

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Venture Capitalists Are Humans.

Venture capitalists are humans. And when a human is faced with the founder, and we've had this founder friendly environment, let's just pick a number here was 100 million. Even if they doubled their revenue since their last round in 2021, that two million today might be worth 10 times that. If there are 20 million dollar company and they've raised 15 million, that overhang is going to lead a venture capitalist away from them. So many VCs are hesitant to use a lot of structure and are hesitant to do down rounds because they don't want to upset entrepreneurs or get themselves into complicated situations like that. But I think it comes down to the investors conviction. These last several quarters

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