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Investing in Startups: Why Valuations are Higher than Ever Before
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The speaker notes that he is willing to overpay for a startup he really believes in, but will sit out from investing in startups with high valuations that he can't get his head around. He believes that high valuations in public markets will trickle down to venture capitalists.
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