In any other domain, no one feels the need for conspiracy theories to explain outliers. At anything else except making money, you can do extremely well by being talented, hard-working, and lucky. But anyone who does extremely well at making money must have cheated.
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Could one make the argument cheating might be a way to make money, but not necessarily retain it? E.g. Madhoff, Holmes, etc
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I was thinking about this earlier that if life is like a video game, but as time goes by you can’t go back, becoming successful and rich would be similar to going through the entire game and beating every level on the first try.
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Oh wait, also Zuck had some lawsuits with cofounders or something like that, right?
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VC, by default, optimizes for sociopaths: the prioritization of money making over people.
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I think cheating view is valid when you look at VC + founder from outside. They're honest to each other. But capital provides them leverage. It's a way to cheat through the market. They crowd out others.
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Another way to look this is by asking a question: can you bootstrap a tech company without venture capital? The data clearly shows the unfair advantage of capital.
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When you say "so" do you mean "ergo" i.e. you just proved it formally with one data point?
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