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A big factor is the rise of VC doing spike projects. We fund a group of very young, energetic people, gas them up on an idea, and burn them to validate a concept. Sometimes they make out well, and sometimes they fail completely, and sometimes they get fully screwed by liquidation preferences and other ridiculousness. It rises to the level of exploitation in a lot of cases.



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