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This week, Q Inc has changed course with speaking with investors. Given I receive a lot of cold opens from investors on Farcaster, I would like to share that change with everyone publicly, and why. Moving forward, we refuse to even begin conversations with funds who have ever (or intend to) engaged in token warrants. It is clear our values and beliefs are diametrically opposed, and this is a far easier filter to save ourselves the time. It has been a long path to fundraising principally because we are operating from a perspective that as a company collaborating on a fair launched project, we can not and will not do token warrants. Despite being upfront about this, this topic has resulted in a lot of time wasted in talking with crypto funds, because they do not believe equity has a path to return for them, and ultimately decline. This is very telling because if they don't believe the company will be successful what use are the tokens, unless...?
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I still struggle to believe that any VC would prefer tokens to equity
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they most certainly do since they’re more liquid liquidity is the biggest difference between crypto vc and tech vc
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They do:(
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Well, it shortens their path to exit by what 50%, 80% which I guess is what their LPs are pressing for. Remember the KPI in VC is IRR which has duration as core factor.
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