<p>This week Spencer Fry, founder of <a href="https://www.podia.com/?via=justin">Podia.com</a>, joins Justin Jackson to talk about venture capital and bootstrapping.</p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/spencerfry/status/1415020244477808645">Spencer's tweet</a>: "The hostility that the bootstrapper community has towards the VC community continues to perplex me."</li><li><a href="https://www.productpeople.tv/episodes/ep33-jason-calacanis-of-inside-com-talks-about-bootstrapping-vs-funding">Justin's interview with Jason Calacanis</a> (2013)</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/VCBrags">VC brags</a></li><li><a href="https://redcircle.com/shows/big-technology-podcast/episodes/4c886224-e2b2-4e16-a44f-6f7b5c6f9593">Roy Bahat on Big Technology Podcast: Why VCs are mad</a></li><li>06:30 "Capital changes lots of dynamics in society. It's not neutral." – Justin Jackson</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo">Silicon Valley: No Revenue</a> (video)</li><li>Blog post: <a href="https://justinjackson.ca/podcasts-and-capital">Podcasts and capital</a></li><li><a href="https://marker.medium.com/how-venture-capitalists-make-money-9af5cc3ff2ef">How venture capitalists make money</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-quibi-went-from-raising-1-billion-to-shutting-down-2020-10">The rise and fall of Quibi:</a> from raising $1.75 billion before launch to shutting down just 6 months later</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1354244048521814021">Tweet</a>: the negative effects of overcapitalization</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1417221840418705408">Tweet</a>: Big-name VCs, and their hypocrisy, give VCs a bad name.</li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me-the-truth-about-vcs/">Techcrunch</a>: "The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs"</li><li><a href="https://adii.me/blog/raising-anxiety/">Adii Pienaar on venture capital</a>: Raising Anxiety</li><li><a href="https://justinjackson.ca/cost">Blog post</a>: The hidden cost of bootstrapping</li></ul><p><b>What should we talk about next?</b></p><ul><li>Twitter:<strong> </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/spencerfry">@spencerfry</a></li><li>Email us:
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