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Gil Dibner's avatar

What's the post behind the post? You could write this about almost any profession - and certainly about founders. What you wrote is true. But what are you really trying to say?

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Mark Hovde's avatar

I think most VC have the capacity to be jerks. But I don’t think they want to be. I think you see the jerk behavior if the investment is not going well. A down is, well, a downer for all concerned. So what you may be seeing as you implied with your comments on ZIRP above is that the business cycle and fundraising cycle is in a place right now where there are a lot of companies being squeezed. The VCs, and you can see it in the term sheets, have a lot of tools for doing that squeezing.

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