Green: MicroStrategy's strategy of issuing debt for crypto is a house of cards
Mitchell Green · Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 26, 2025 · at 1:13:53
Mitchell Green is the founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital. He discusses public equities and debt risks with host Harry Stebbings.
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“The idea, like, from what I understand, microstrategy is effectively issuing debt to buy, to go in the market and buy more To go to buy more like crypto and they just keep doing it. But if that reverses, eventually got paid on the debt. I don't know. It just sounds like a house of cards to me.”
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