most VC&#x27;s will tell you anything but the truth - profits, sustainability, culture, blah blah blah, they&#x27;ll make some nonsense blog posts about it, but none of that matters, as long as you grow the business through any means necessary and have a huge, profitable exit for them.  and if you can&#x27;t have a huge exit, well, they&#x27;ll probably just take all the money back and leave you with nothing.<p>things like profitability and sustainability are for suckers, plebe small businesses that they won&#x27;t look at until they smell an opportunity.  otherwise, you might as well be the taco joint they eat lunch at.  they&#x27;ll say great things about you and even use your products, but they wouldn&#x27;t give you more than an hour of their time.<p>they have the best jobs on the planet, that&#x27;s for sure.  i&#x27;m not saying they don&#x27;t do work, they certainly do, it&#x27;s just extremely favorable for them, because they have all the money.  so what are you gonna say, chump?  nothing.<p>watch out for their lawyers, too.  it&#x27;s hard to tell which of the two are more full of shit.