the venture capitalist perspective — How entrepreneurs can rebuild our world
We started with the current recession and reasons why the supermajority of great companies started in a recession… by iterating in a learning loop with customers and not chasing after ever larger pools of external financing. It’s the opposite of a bubble environment with a mega-fund model.
One of the topics we discussed was the activation energy of disruptive change, and how a good crisis can induce a change, like a supply chain disruption leading to a search for more sustainable and local alternatives… like some faced when the grocery stores ran out of fresh meat. Some tried the new plant-based alt-meats and loved them. Imagine the shift when a better, cheaper, healthier form of slaughterless clean meat arrives from Memphis Meats and others?
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