Letter from a VC

I just got this email via LinkedIn from a Swedish VC. That got me thinking about what my college acquiantances are currently doing. So I started to track some of them down via LinkedIn and realized that most of them are still in… Sweden. Which was quite a disappointment. Especially seeing some of them in suits, flustering their best Colgate smiles on their company websites.

Most of them have become their parents, desiring the same kind of corporate paybacks: careers, club memberships, company cars… Spending more time at the office has become an societal award.

And then I think about my own life: carefree, jeans and t-shirt, startup life, California sun, no memberships, no old world desires, freedom of expression, outside of ratrace, access to beach…

Yeah, I got the shorter stick!