Kamal Ravikant: Founders bear single-bet risk while VCs diversify portfolios
Kamal Ravikant · 20 VC 077: Part 2: Kamal Ravikant: The Future Of Venture Capital · Oct 7, 2015 · at 4:03
Kamal Ravikant, investor and author, explains the fundamental asymmetry in risk and commitment between startup founders and venture capital firms.
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“The entrepreneur is the one who makes, who loses big, because they're going all in on one thing for their life, right? For three, five years of their life. For a VC, you're just another company in their portfolio.”
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