Kurt Andersen: Funding Internet Companies A Lot Like Sexual Intercourse

“[G]etting venture capital in the ’90s is like getting laid in 1969.” –Kurt Andersen, circa 2001.

“[P]eople are still having sex with strangers, but now it’s safer sex.” –Kurt Andersen, The Way We Boom Now, New York, May 1, 2006.

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