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Money probably isn't hard to find if you co-founded a company thats currently worth $46b on a bad day (which it is for Uber rn).

The magic of money supply ie Quantitative Easing.

It seems so. I really need to make that dumb app I've had in mind! The idea isn't original but hey it seems people will throw money at it anyway.

As a bonus it won't abuse the underemployed nor will it fuck travellers, homeowners and destroy cities by messing with their housing market.

Repeat founders have huge advantages when it comes to raising funds, regardless of how "dumb" their idea seems to sideline observers.

I believe this is partially beacause investor's don't have very strong priors about what works and are happy to delegate that decision to someone with a track record. Incidentally, this model also explains why VCs tend to herd around the same investments - it's notorious how, once you get one VC interested, they all suddenly become interested.