Command economy and venture capital


It's all about the political connections

Behold the new model for venture capital success in America.

Rent-seeking is the new venture capital model, Kleiner Perkins managing partner Ray Lane explained to an electric car-conference here Wednesday.

In an extraordinary speech, Lane laid out how market socialism can guarantee profits for politically connected VC firms like Kleiner — far more preferable to the old model of “throwing a dart at a dart board,” as Lane has put it. While Silicon Valley–based Kleiner made its reputation as a financier of tech startups like Netscape, Lane confided that they are inherently risky ventures in uncertain, fast-moving markets.

Do you understand what's happened? It's no longer about picking the company that has the best chances in the market place. Now it's about profits guaranteed by political patronage.

Suck up to the Congressman or bribe the bureaucrat.

Sometimes I really wish I hadn't seen it. They want to destroy your freedom with a command economy. And it took one year.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - October 26, 2009 at 12:20 PM  Tag


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