On: Housing in the Bay Area

[BurningFrog]

VCs can make millions from owning houses.

They can make billions from funding startups.

[blazespin → BurningFrog]

The keyword is "can". What's the expected value of investing in a startup versus real estate?

[rcpt → BurningFrog]

Why not both?

[vctheory → BurningFrog]

By increasing the most substantial cost that startups face, VCs end up owning larger portions of each startup.

[jdminhbg → vctheory]

Is this anything like my plan to invest in McDonalds franchises and then kill off a huge proportion of the world's cattle to "own larger portions" of each?