I’m wondering these days. Since a lot of well funded companies I read about in the news seem to struggle since it’s becoming harder to raise at the current market, I wonder how many of those companies really were designed to raise vc in the first place.

Do you really need huge amounts of capital to scale a product that itches a major pain?

I’m thinking companies like Zapier. If I’m not mistaken they only raised a small pre seed or seed and didn’t have any further rounds.

That might be super noob to ask but I just feel like way too many companies are getting funded and could’ve been profitable mid sized companies instead going the vc path.

What y’all thinking?