that companies funded by VC money can be incestuous customers of each other (the same VC money just sloshes back and forth) may not actually be a ‘problem’
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money fundamentally has no value except as a motivational token. the more it exchanges hands the more “energy” it releases to kickstart real systems that provide value
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e.g. all companies within a country also are incestuous users of the same source of money but no one questions *their* value.
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this sloshing back and forth is actually good in many ways. the same dollar is “recycled” multiple times
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the problem is when standards are lowered and the system is gamed. you can generate incredible cashflow numbers but they could very well be meaningless
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e.g. sth ant financial apparently did was to promote products where customers had to take out loans that the company would pay back. this was a net-zero for the customer but boosted internal numbers with real customer data.
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the interest also didn’t matter since it was a alibaba/ant collaboration. the lendee and the payee were the same entity.
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