The easy-money startup funding market will turn, and many high-burn-rate startups will fail as a result.
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“When the market turns, and it will turn, we will find out who has been swimming without trunks on: many high burn rate co's will VAPORIZE”
- Said on
- 25 September 2014 · Tweetstorm on startup burn rates, quoted in The Register. No window stated; inferred window about 10 years (to Sept 2024).
- Source
- Moneybags VC Andreessen warns profit-free startups: 'You will be VAPORIZED' · The Register
- Should come true
- by 2024
- How sure they sounded
- it will turn
- Categories
- MarketsTechnology
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · A venture funding downturn affects the whole technology industry.
Outcome
Accurate Happened 30 September 2023.
The easy-money venture market turned in 2022 as interest rates rose; Carta data show record startup shutdowns in 2022-2023 (467 in 2022, 543 in the first nine months of 2023) and a sharp rise in down rounds, within the inferred ~10-year window.
- https://carta.com/data/newsletter-more-startups-shutdown/
- https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/startup-funding-bankruptcies-lower-valuations-2023
History
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