Guest Essay: VC Contagion - by Kyle Harrison - Newcomer

Is Venture Capital Killing Itself? By Contrary's Kyle Harrison.

Newcomer: I’m running a guest essay from a venture capitalist criticizing the venture capital industry’s behavior during the bull market. I was talking to Kyle Harrison, a general partner at the venture capital firm Contrary, about a draft of this essay for the Newcomer podcast. He offered to let me publish his essay so you all have a chance to take it in before he and I discuss it on this week’s podcast episode. The essay is an entertaining survey of the slump in venture capital from a venture capitalist. Sometimes you get a song stuck in your head. You don’t even realize you’re humming…

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