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> I think tech investors are unable to see their bias for just how awful most tech companies today are.

I think investors are more greedy than stupid. When money was essentially free, weirder and weirder investments make sense. If the world was crazy and throwing money around, why not fund a bunch of ridiculous companies with the knowledge that you can very likely unload that risk on the public when the company ipos.

And we're seeing that that logic is correct. Just look at the record numbers of IPOs that were happening right before the market started to collapse [0].

Investors know they are playing musical chairs, but they're playing with the public and the know they song quite well and can tell when the music is winding down.

Now IPO'd companies that don't know how to make a profit are the public shareholders problem, not private VCs.

0. https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/statistics/




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