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It also means it is a great time to be able to produce value and be in control of its distribution (eg. start your startup and control the equity). People with lots of money are hungry for yields and will push your valuation higher and higher.

See: cryptocurrencies (bitcoin etc) or sharing economy startups (uber, airbnb etc)



I've read about this a few time this year, do you think there will be some "tipping point" or crisis about these funds not being able to generate wealth?


Probably - interest rates rise a bit, the markets start going down rather than up, the pension funds end up needing topping up / bailing out. The economist Minsky had an interesting theory that in stable prosperous times people borrow to buy office blocks and the like until the degree of leverage makes the system unstable and it all goes wrong. Unless you have govt intervention to stop that which seems kind of absent in the west at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment


It's already happening. Some funds have starting founding their own suite startups because they can't find enough places to put their money.


Yep. That’s the absolute truth.


Yeah, Uber is perfect example of the superiority of startup founders to run later-stage companies. Can't wait to see where Kalanick takes it next.

Edit: Now I'm wondering if I'm being downvoted by those who don't get the sarcasm, or by Kalanick himself.


Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


> Can't wait to see where Kalanick takes it next.

How? He is no longer the CEO of Co.




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