Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

We are dependent on them for our lives and our businesses, and we make them billions of dollars, and their employees wealthy. And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. And either way it lets too many of us get away with not having to deal with the actual implications of the products we build.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

This can be problematic if employees are stretched too thin; it doesn’t matter how much talent they have or how invested they are into your concept. VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. VCs also get capital gains tax rates on “carried interest,” which is what irritates the masses.

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