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Has VC Become So Big It Must Be Disrupted?

Tom Tunguz

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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The $8 trillion opportunity

ProfitWell

Blake Bartlett over at OpenView , the expansion-stage venture capital firm, chatted with me a bit about product-led growth. 2020 to 2030, that’s going to just be increasingly less effective and the end-user era is here, so build a product for end users, not for their boss, and then distribute to end users through self-service.”.

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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

Here I’m thinking about: Clean energy production EVs and mobility Agriculture and food security Techbio and data-driven healthcare Safe and efficient manufacturing Defense and collective security Space These are all hard problems to solve, and it’s unlikely that we’ll have them squared away come 2030.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. So, it’s like in healthcare, one of my friends who’s a doctor says she feels like she fell asleep in 2020 and woke up in 2030 in terms of … Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I bet. 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, it’s like in healthcare, one of my friends who’s a doctor says she feels like she fell asleep in 2020 and woke up in 2030 in terms of … Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I bet. When you look at venture capital, there’s a whole thing going on about how many funds are and how many seed funds there are.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At this point, I’ve raised a billion dollars between a venture capital and then now we’re a public company. What do you see for the cloud in 2030 and how are you planning for that? And so maybe 2030 would be the next mobile giant is actually out of Africa because that’s how you innovate out of that problem.