
Firehose #158: 🍰 Capital stack. 🍰

In contrast to VC - where over the past 30 years of software, there’s been a circular “we shape our tools, and then they shape us” coevolution around how equity works - this hasn’t happened for debt yet. We haven’t figured out the right atomic unit
Alex Danco • Pipe It! Platforms, Funding, and the Future
There’s a broad spectrum of VCs and founders, the latter of whom possess differing levels of capability to maintain high growth and continually raise equity dollars at inflated valuations. For example, there are many companies who raise an angel/seed round, then a Series A, spend most of it on customer acquisition which flows right into FB and... See more
Alex Danco • It’s Not Debt, It’s Better: an Interview with Harry Hurst of Pipe
Debt can also scare off growth equity funds, who don’t like not being the most senior money in the pref stack.