What is a "repercussion"? Most of the individuals involved are in a position where the worst that can happen is a slower rate of wealth acumulation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/wework-me...

Son is an extreme outlier- remember he lost $70 billion during the dot com bust, and SoftBank lost 99% of its market cap, and in the subsequent decade was able to gain it back.

I'm talking about the average Silicon Valley VC firm.

And what happens when you chase hyper-growth over profitability when either the markets crash or a global catastrophe happens or perhaps more accurately both events happening? [0]

This plea for halp is left as an exercise to the reader.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/08/deliveroo-graphcore-and-ot...