&gt;<i>VCs are totally the problem here. It&#x27;s not that VCs are bad people who want to screw over users, but their business model requires them to get payback on their bets, even if it&#x27;s small.</i><p>Doesn&#x27;t that make them bad though? I mean it&#x27;s like saying &quot;It&#x27;s not that the mafia are bad people who want to screw over people, but their business model requires them to blackmail and occasionally kill&quot; (not comparing levels of &quot;badness&quot; of course, merely showing the problem in said reasoning).<p>It&#x27;s not like following a particular &quot;business model&quot; is not a decision people get to make. And if people take the VC model that favours acquihires, then they very much have decided to do stuff that screws with users.