Aram Verdian
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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So yeah, that's why I'm confused.
And then we talked about the different categories in venture.
In my mind, there's only four.
There's pre-seed, seed, challengers, big firms, late stage.
And every single one of those categories is challenging to navigate today.
They're almost at that in terms of revenue.
Well, two reasons.
Forget that...
being a public company is hard and you have to report quarterly.
That's been the case for a long time.
The two structural changes that have happened more recently is there's more private capital available.
So these companies that you mentioned, they have options in the private markets to raise scalable capital, to do acquisitions, to scale in a way they couldn't before.
They can raise billions and billions of dollars in the private markets.
By the way, if you told me
A private company in 2026 can raise a $30 billion round.
I would have said, no way.
Anthropic did that in one month.
So you can actually raise sizable capital in the private markets today as a private company if you're one of the 0.1% of those companies.
Secondly, a lot of the capital that's being raised by these companies can be secondaries as well and tender offers coming from the teams themselves.
So if you think about using the examples of those companies, employees have been able to get liquidity in the private markets
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