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The VCs have the well-paid, cushy, powerful and easy jobs and are pretty much guaranteed by their path-of-low-resistance career track to be rich

Then why doesn't everyone and their mom become a VC?

Hint: Because it's nowhere near as easy as you think it is.

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While I'm not a VC, and I don't know enough to comment on how hard the job itself is, I do know that it takes a significant amount of capital. Not everyone and their mom has enough capital, and therefore, they're not in a position to become a VC.

It is plausible that the barrier to entry is high, but the job is easy.

really? not everyone becomes a VC because they are afraid that it's very hard?

what i see, people don't even know that it's hard so you have to enlighten them. i see people think there are some other barriers, like connections, friends of parents, university, money, etc

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