Dear VCs: If you want startup prices to come down, stop paying higher prices
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Reuters’ prediction series for the new year included the idea that startups “seeking to raise capital in 2022 may [have] to sell shares at a lower valuation than before,” to flag another example.But missing from the discussion of the prices that venture capitalists and other private-market investors are paying for startup shares is the fact that they are still doing it.This, of course, is a choice.Venture capitalists have the ability to stop writing checks.
As said here by Alex Wilhelm