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[sroerick]

They also put billions of dollars of venture capital into it. Ripple wouldn't be worth what it is today without that.

[svenkatesh → sroerick]

Wow, I had no idea that billions of dollars were fed into ripple.

Do you have any links that delve into more details (such as who was behind the funding rounds)?

[sroerick → svenkatesh]

I was in error, I repeated this without confirming and looking at "market cap" pages led me to believe it was true.

[mulligan → svenkatesh]

He meant to say billions of ripple coins, surely.

[svenkatesh → mulligan]

That makes even less sense; they invested billions of ripple in venture capital into making... ripple?

This investment of billions of ripple gave value to... ripple?

[mulligan → svenkatesh]

sarcasm on my part ;)