I am wondering what do you mean exactly by disguising failure as an M&A event.

According to the survey, VC returns are driven by 60% deal sourcing/selection and 40% by value-added activities. The table below show the frequency of exits for VCs. It is important to note that most of the M&A events are disguised failures in the VC industry.

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Antoine Buteau

Vlad Cazacu

1 min readApr 19, 2019

I am wondering what do you mean exactly by disguising failure as an M&A event. Could you further discuss this?

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