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Era of easy money is over...for now.

Grow the old fashioned way. It's harder and slower but at least you won't be beholden to the big bad banker or mr money bags.

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There’s at least a generation who haven’t experienced the old ways and really lack a mental model for it. Engineering in cash-constrained settings brings out creativity. Growth at any cost engenders numbness to reality.

it never felt "natural" to chase these big, over inflated values and exits to me.

Do you think what comes next is going to be more sane?

For a little bit, but it will eventually devolve into the same Unicorn or bust scheme once the interest rates go low enough again.

What comes next?

Era of organic growth and modest teams.

An appeal-to-nature fallacy is even more silly than usual when used in the context of venture capitalism.

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