Wisdom

Cheap money fuels spray-and-pray startup investing

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And then we've just been money got cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. And there was more money and like money was so cheap, people just trying to find a way to give it away.

Episode 93: Motion of Positivity (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:33:50 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Agreeing with Buzzsprout's Tom Rossi, Dave ties the grow-at-all-costs startup phenomenon to monetary expansion. Since around the dot-com boom, money got so cheap that investors happily lost money on 99 companies hoping one pays off big.