VC 双重困境:LP 面临低回报高风险,GP 对市场失去饥饿感

链捕手Pubblicato 2024-07-30Pubblicato ultima volta 2024-07-30

作者:ivangbi 🦞

编译:深潮TechFlow

 

如今,成为 VC 的有限合伙人(LP)是件令人失望的事情。此时的局面太难了。这不仅仅是普通合伙人四处旅行、参加晚宴的游戏,而是真正的回报挑战。许多知名基金正在情感上退出,变得对市场自满,失去饥饿感,因此只是在买他们能得到的任何东西。难怪——他们并不打算在当前周期之后继续工作。自 2021 年以来,懈怠的策略变得越来越糟糕,以至于遭遇惨败。趋势如下:

1. 存在与交易相关的肮脏把戏

每第二笔交易(是的,糟糕得令人震惊)都是由其他基金孵化的,简单来说,就是为了追随叙事而抬高或抛售。这些融资或产品并不是自然产生的,这些创始人并不是自发踏上这段旅程的。这一切都是在幕后某人操控下拼凑起来的。这意味着他们在前期融资阶段就拥有巨大的股份,团队同样如此。在那时,即使你足够早,你也只是排队的第十个人。你甚至不会得到任何利益。

此外,GP 会接受个人支票(或有限合伙人投资于一些共同投资但实际上会出售的其他基金,甚至是一些顾问),以便在他们的有限合伙人之前出售,这实际上是一种欺诈行为,几乎是半犯罪,但如今这种情况发生得太频繁了。

2. 完全退出的机会渺茫

在如今的融资规模下,这些投资将永远无法流动。去年这已经是事实。问题不是包会贬值,而是基金无法出售它。作为天使投资者,在相同的完全摊薄价值(FDV)下,你仍然可能获得一些小额利润,但作为基金,这样做要困难得多。你以高估值进入,但代币和流动性之间的时间差距是数年。

我可以理解在 1 亿的估值下买入一个项目,然后在 1 年内代币上线。但自 2022 年以来,几乎没有项目上线他们的代币。再加上 2 年的锁仓期(即代币在此期间无法出售),你将面临 5 年的流动性差距。这是之前时间的最少 2 倍。

3. Web2 的幂律递减收益

在这一点上完全是 Web2 的氛围,但你仍然得不到有效的保护。股权支持、创始人的金手铐和其他法律边界在这一周期变得更加真实,但仍然相对模糊。更糟糕的是,基金、项目和整体饱和度都太多。你进入的不是一个 10 倍的游戏,而是在未来几年最多只能获得 2 倍的收益。在当前的状态下,持有主流币比购买新的闪亮代币显然是一种更好的方法。这一直是这样,但之前你可以冒险追求 10 倍的收益。现在你冒险追求的平均收益仅为 2 倍。

我并不是说所有的 VC 都不好或表现不佳。许多人正在得出相同的结论,或者早已得出这些结论,但只是没有公开表达。我只是提到未来的挑战。

要么需要一个完整的 3-4 年的熊市彻底洗牌,或者用户基础必须增长 10 倍,以证明估值的增长。当然,后者是更可取的!另外,你可以投资于一个仍然微小的领域,即使行业没有神奇地增长 10 倍,你也期望它会增长。这也是可以的。但 VC 很少投资于如此小的细分市场,因为他们更喜欢一起失败或获胜的安全感。毕竟,这一切都是一个周期。但 VC 的投资周期是你必须考虑的事情。

我也没有说已经上线的项目有什么问题。那些仍然存活并且存在的团队,每天都在减少,他们的基础和经验变得更强。

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