Borthwick: Venture capital fund cycles must be longer than 10 to 12 years
John Borthwick · 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year · Mar 6, 2017 · at 18:41
John Borthwick, founder and CEO of Betaworks, discusses the structural misalignment between standard venture capital fund lifecycles and technological adoption timelines with host Harry Stebbings.
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“I think that they have to be longer. I think so. I do. Because I think that the fundamental trends that we are working, you know, the transformation that technology is driving in our society is much longer than that.”
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