who wants to give up more equity of a wildly profitable and growing business? and I think finance people like funding finance things because they understand them

Venture debt is like a delicious sandwich that only costs ten cents, but occasionally explodes in your face. 

If I were running a startup, I don't think I'd ever take it.

Paul Graham

Building global interoperable roles @ hatsprotocol.xyz | DAOs are the endgame of crypto

He obviously has seen a lot more late stage stuff than I have. But something about mercury being an incremental innovation in an existing market seems relatively low enough risk for it to make sense here. Especially if you’re applying capital to a working funnel that spits out LTV > CAC

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