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Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by marcosdumay on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:45PM (#22277126)
> Just need to make sure you don't end up with financers/banks/rating agencies colluding to bundle multiple companies together and sell tranches of the debt (all with a phony A+ rating) to investors/funds...

I imagine that's sarcastic, because that looks a lot like the description of a VC...

Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by nightski on Saturday February 08, 2020 @03:41PM (#22278195)
Close, but loans have a fixed return where vc money has much more opportunity making it potentially with the higher risk.
Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by marcosdumay on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:16AM (#22282771)
The largest difference should be that VCs are transparent about their risks. I don't think any investor expects not to lose nearly all their investment in the case of a bubble popping, what is different from people buying home loans.

But it was a description of VCs.