Not the former VC, but an active venture capitalist: https://kvinogradov.com. I earn money by investing in open source / AI / infra software startups, and I spend money by donating to nonprofit open source projects :-)

Also, it is not a VC who run things, but the team which consists of people with diverse backgrounds (founders/executives/devs x OSS/nonprofit) and the donor community (which everybody can join): https://endowment.dev/community/

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verdverm an hour ago | parent [-]

It's the VC "class", similar to the Epstein Class, nowhere near as bad or vile, but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise

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dewey an hour ago | parent [-]

With your strong feelings against VC, I hope you are aware that HN is the message board of one of the leading VC firms?

> but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise

That's a pretty big leap you are doing there.

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verdverm an hour ago | parent [-]

You can click my handle to see I've been a part of the HN community longer than yourself, I'm fully aware of the many associations

I have /rant'd on YC and the dilution of help to their startups after they stopped heeding their own advice to "do things that don't scale"

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whit537 an hour ago | parent [-]

> I've been a part of the HN community longer than

Dang, got me beat, too. :) gg

	▲	verdverm 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's not a competition, but it is faux pax for GGP to make the comment the way they did. I would hope you all would know that having been here more than a decade