Venture Capital Deep Dive

By Keith Teare • Issue #274 • View online

This week a far deeper dive into the changing world of venture capital, and a video essay by @kteare to accompany a great selection of writers from across the venture ecosystem

Contents

• The State of VC 2.0
• The Changing Venture Landscape
• Dragons
• Forge’s SPAC deal is a bet on unicorn illiquidity
• Startup Founders Use Record-High Valuations to Cash Out Earlier
• Andreessen Pulls a Bezos
• 500 Global Closes Largest Fund Raised To Date
• Oper8 — The next big startup may just help venture back more startups
• Mammoth Funding Deal Signals Frothiness of VC Funding Market
• China versus Billionaires…continued
• Apple in Focus
• Startup of the Week
• Tweet of the Week

Editorial

Let’s go on a journey into the obscure world of venture capital. This has been bubbling under for quite some time now in That Was The Week. With Andrew Keen traveling it seemed like a perfect week to pull things together and do a face to camera video essay on the topic. The catalyst was the wide…