Narcos: Bengaluru 
It literally says so on the label, comrade. What do you think the C stands for?
(I guess I'm now live-tweeting my reading of this wild, wild piece)
(I guess I'm now live-tweeting my reading of this wild, wild piece)
How to become a rich VC: "give more money"
That evil VC firm of Murdoch & DeVos
Look at these shadowy VCs, pumping up the stock prices of duds like Uber and Palantir
I don't know about WeWork, but Neumann's previous ventures are gold. Rompers with kneepads: sign me up daddy!
Behold notorious drug lord Bruce Dunlevie
Why stop at jail terms professor? "Doing things that are bad for society" should be punishable by firing squad.
Three quarters of the way into the article, we have the first valid criticism of the industry. Guilty as charged, your honour.
Top 3 faults of VCs:
1. Give too much money
2. "Push" founders to make bad choices (while simultaneously being powerless to stop them from making bad choices)
3. Ask founders to grow fast
That's why companies blow up.
1. Give too much money
2. "Push" founders to make bad choices (while simultaneously being powerless to stop them from making bad choices)
3. Ask founders to grow fast
That's why companies blow up.
In all seriousness, the VC industry has plenty of problems - poor judgment of winner-take-all effects, keeping companies private for too long (and thus avoiding price discovery), funding tens of copycat models - but it would take a FAR more nuanced article to uncover those.
Meanwhile, the world's best magazine has just painted the backers of life-changing companies (like, yes, Uber) as thuggish drug lords. <end>
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