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> I wonder, aren't the majority of HNers working at a for-profit company funded by VCs?

they're probably over-represented given that this is an incubator-adjacent forum but startups are vastly outnumbered by both mature businesses as well as bog-standard privately owned businesses so probably not.

Most firms don't get a hundred million dollars up front, they grow products and revenue just like everyone else, with significantly fewer distortions to users or business models.



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