I&#x27;ve started companies which have taken (small amounts of) VC funding, and I can tell you definitively it is nothing at all like a MacArthur. Try to close a deal while telling the investor you will treat their investment like a gift, and you will know exactly what I mean. Now granted, YC is starting to do things more MacArthur like, i.e. with their YC Research initiative. In particular the equity grant in YC component is very interesting.<p>Companies are formed to generate a profit, and investment is a direct expectation of that, or more directly, an expectation for a company to grow their market cap irrespective of any actual profit. MacArthur is the abject opposite of that, cash money without expectation.