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In a board room, somewhere in Silicon Valley…

by Nivi on February 6th, 2010

… a founder, a VC, and his Associate negotiate a down round. Very NSFW.

Video: Old Face Andre talks economics with Omar

Another business lesson from The Wire — about intellectual property: “It ain’t about right, it’s about money.”

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  • Matt

    Dude, you should SpeakerText this!

  • Curtis Smith

    Unfortunately, about the only way I’ll see a black founder and VC on this or any other site. Hope you can balance this one day with real examples of black entrepreneurs in high-tech startups. I’m not quite there yet, but I’m coming.

  • PC

    The Wire FTW.

    If you haven’t watched the whole series, I highly recommend it. The best series I’ve seen that talks about the reality of a broken city.