Is venture capital bad?

This week Spencer Fry, founder of Podia.com, joins Justin Jackson to talk about venture capital and bootstrapping.

• Spencer's tweet: "The hostility that the bootstrapper community has towards the VC community continues to perplex me."
• Justin's interview with Jason Calacanis (2013)
• VC brags
• Roy Bahat on Big Technology Podcast: Why VCs are mad
• 06:30 "Capital changes lots of dynamics in society. It's not neutral." – Justin Jackson
• Silicon Valley: No Revenue (video)
• Blog post: Podcasts and capital
• How venture capitalists make money
• The rise and fall of Quibi: from raising $1.75 billion before launch to shutting down just 6 months later
• Tweet: the negative effects of overcapitalization
• Tweet: Big-name VCs, and their hypocrisy, give VCs a bad name.
• Techcrunch: "The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs"
• Adii Pienaar on venture capital: Raising Anxiety
• Blog post: The hidden cost of bootstrapping

What should we talk about next?

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