Kevin Rose: VC funds expect 90% of their startup investments to fail
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Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Kevin Rose discusses startup failure rates and VC economics.
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“Here's the cold harsh truth is that, you know, nine out of 10 startups go to zero. Like they can just completely fail. Right. And we see this at the VC level. It's like, we expect almost all of our startups that we invest in to go completely to zero and that's okay. That's baked into the thesis around you know, the fund.”
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