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Rishabh Verma

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Are venture capitalists driving innovation, or do they have too much influence over the startup ecosystem?

Anonymous 3

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VCs play a crucial role in the innovation ecosystem, but their influence has become too dominant. They tend to follow trends, creating funding bubbles in specific sectors (remember the dot-com boom?). This can actually stifle true innovation by funneling too much money into overhyped areas while neglecting others.

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SomeGuyOnMedian

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Completely agree with you, the buzzwords get to them and it is understandable to some extent. They are bound to give returns to the LPs so they try to maximize their chances of getting a fatter pay day. We all remember how VCs globally jumped from Edtech to NFT to GenAI in matter of 12-18 months

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