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Have been thinking about this since yesterday - What percentage of establishment VCs communicate with each other like this even privately? Not within their own firm, but outside?

By his own admission he won’t make any investment that doesn’t go against the system, hence and therefore, any company that accepts his money will likely not meet the criteria that @Austen posited his bet against. That said, I’m sure @paulg would add additional reasons.

If the investor is so certain the company is flawed, why meet multiple times?

I want to work on this. I hv been thinking about chahging school education system in India from sm time.. i m not enough talented to write software for it. But i will learn it.

Innovation requires failure as part of the search. SV does it well because it’s built a culture/social system that doesn’t just reject, but values, it. So always fascinating to see the antibodies attack anyone who dares to diverge... non-conformity is a threat to the system