Venture capital will evolve slowly as technology companies become cheaper to build
Anand Sanwal · Founder's Friday 001: How to Create Great Company Culture with Anand Sanwal, Founder @ CB Insights · Jun 26, 2015 · at 17:27
Anand Sanwal, co-founder and CEO of CB Insights, offers his perspective on the long-term evolution of the venture capital model.
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“I do think the VC model is one that is going to need to evolve, right? I think companies are increasingly less expensive to build, especially tech companies and so I think we're gonna see experiments in venture but, you know, they're gonna play out over many years, so it's hard to know exactly what's gonna happen, but, you know, there's different things that are happening that, that may become the, you know, the heir apparent to VC, or, you know, I don't think VC's gonna get Kind of disrupted, to use an overused term, but I think it's gonna definitely evolve.”
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