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Janeway: Non-traditional late-stage tech investments will end in painful correction
“Now, when you see investors, hedge funds, mutual funds, paying premium prices, To buy illiquidity, to buy securities with no liquidity and with no governance rights. In the private market. The only thing you know is when it ends, it will end painfully.”
Bill Janeway Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:01 a16z Podcast | Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
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Janeway: Startup Quality Inevitably Declines When Cheap Capital Is Plentiful
“Again, the people on the other side of the market aren't morons, so the quality inevitably will decline. Inevitably.”
Bill Janeway Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:56 a16z Podcast | Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
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Janeway: Private tech bubble collapse won't threaten the broader economic system
“Now the good news about that is that when it bursts, the, some of these companies that have learned nothing about business discipline will disappear, and the people who have invested in them will lose their money, maybe their jobs, that usually happens as well…”
Bill Janeway Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:43 a16z Podcast | Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
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Janeway: Only five out of 85 current unicorns will become great companies
“Out of those 85 unicorns, there are five great companies. And by the way, that's the necessary waste of trial and error.”
Bill Janeway Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:21 a16z Podcast | Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
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