As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog.Īs I’m sure many of you know all too well, Elon Musk’s $44 billion dollar bid for Twitter was accepted this week, marking a massive moment in tech history and a looming return to the private markets for a fundamental social media platform. In this newsletter, we’ll talk about news that has to do with Elon Musk, and news that has nothing to do with Elon Musk. For more thoughts, read my TechCrunch+ piece: “If the earliest investors keep going earlier, what will happen?” It’s a lot happening at once, and makes me worry about the race to the bottom - or race to the earliest stage - and its consequences. Growth, gross margin and burn are the new top priorities for CEOs, but at the same time, venture capitalists are clamoring to offer more funds, earlier, in newly invented subcategories of early-stage investment. Investors are pushing founders to be lean but also green, but at the same time, offering them $10,000 to take PTO for a week and try their hand at entrepreneurship. Let’s pretend these two vastly different worlds are in the same universe: Early-stage investors are getting more disciplined and cash rich, but at the same time, the earliest investors are going earlier. Some are admitting that they’re telling portfolio companies to refocus on cash conservation, profitability and discipline, not just growth. While all that is going on, early-stage investors are enduring a valuation correction and portfolio markdowns. Even more, Techstars, an accelerator literally launched to help startups get off the ground, debuted a fund to back companies that are too early for its traditional programming. This trend was underscored by firms like Andreessen Horowitz launching a pre-seed program months after launching a $400 million seed fund. In one world, late-stage investors are reacting to tech stonk corrections by clamoring toward the early-stage investment world, forcing seed investors to go even earlier to defend ownership and potential returns. There’s a clash happening in the early-stage market.
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