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LOL. Just ten years ago you had to have founded a billion dollar company or be a particularly well connected Harvard or Stanford MBA to even have a chance of working in VC. The sector has grown too big.

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Yeah, this is the largest I've ever seen it. Do you know what's driving the boom?

I'm not the parent poster, but my guess is much more money chasing returns and thinking of startups as a realistic asset class there.

Decades of low interest rates resulting in wealthy people looking at new places to put their money to make more money, coupled with the phenomenal results that early stage tech investing has seen in the past 20 years, with a bit of "new money" from people who have lucked out in tech and crypto.

> The sector has grown too big

Some may argue that competition is a good thing :thinkingface:

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