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I went to a top university. Everyone I know from it who became a VC wasn’t impressive, above-average, or even average in some cases. However, they were extremely money obsessed.

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Long ago I read a memoir from a Hollywood writer whose name escapes me at the moment. One of her points was that many of the people making deals in Hollywood were not so much "extraordinary" as "extra ordinary". They were the people who actually liked standard middlebrow Hollywood fare. That gave them a competitive advantage in producing dreck because they weren't troubled by things like "artistic vision" or "scruples".

VC is a sales business. Their business is to sell startups for money. In fact, I would say that money is really their only value, so you really want them to be money obsessed.

One wants them to be money obsessed only if one thinks selling startups for money is a valuable economic activity

I mean, it’s valuable to me to sell my startup for more money. Valuable economic activity indeed.

I would say if you are in the business of selling startups, you’re probably in the same boat.

Clearly true, if you value money more than whatever it is you founded your startup to do. Which is likely true, if you're in the business of selling startups. Now we're going in circles.

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