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Exactly. SV likes to brag how their tools are disrupting collaboration, reducing the need for physical presence and increasing automation is making jobs redundant but big money deals are always done in person, with a handshake at a dinner in a fancy restaurant. No amount of tech will ever disrupt this ritual.



Relationships were central to pit traders as well. Doing deals in the steam room was a cherished & central ritual.

It didn’t save them when the bots came.




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