The Ledger
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Barrett: Silicon Valley mostly builds startups to flip and destroy them
“Silicon Valley, more often than not, and I would say vastly more often than not, is building something that gets flipped and destroyed.”
Barrett: Silicon Valley VCs act like gamblers, not real investors
“The difference is Silicon Valley investors aren't investors. They're gamblers. They're just throwing money at crazy ideas.”
Barrett: Top Talent Doesn't Care Which VC Backs Your Startup
“I think that the best people out there just don't give a damn about your VC. They're probably not reading Hacker News. They probably don't care about TechCrunch.”
Barrett claims Travis Kalanick has an incredibly strong moral compass
“Travis has a complicated story, and I think he's sort of developed kind of this legend around him, which is perhaps surprising to the people who know him, because he's actually a really nice guy with, I would say, one of the most strong moral compasses I know,…”