Landlords who also want to be your Investor, start a VC Fund (a sign that the Bubble is Back?)

[dpapathanasiou]

http://venturebeat.com/2006/03/17/amidzad-the-rug-merchants-turned-venture-capitalists/

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Though the article is recent, they've been doing this for a long time.

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So they got lucky because PayPal leased their space.

Yeah, you can survive a long time with a payoff like that.

But do they really understand tech investing?

[dpapathanasiou → create_account]

That's essentially what I was thinking: the whole equity-instead-of-rent phenomenon is a holdover from the last bubble.

While I'm glad to see they've done well for themselves, I'm not quite sure I'd welcome them as investors.