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regeland
The search for yield... a predicted consequence of 7 years of zero percent interest rates. Last time around it was investors seeking yields in low-quality mortgages. This time, they're investing in low-quality Silicon Valley startups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
arbuge
That would be somewhat ironic - startups have no profits for the most part, let alone dividends.
S4M
But they have growth...
Inthenameofmine
Considering that central banks are creating a new norm of negative rates around the world, I doubt that foreign investors who are there to seek yields will go away anytime soon.
jbpetersen
Seems like that would simply cause deflation in equal measure once people catch on.
themark
Clickbait article about an article about impending doom.
kevin_thibedeau
I stopped after the first sentence starting with a conjunction.
hackaflocka
Wait... El-Erian said "re-up".

When did this urban/inner-city drug culture term become mainstream?

(for the etymology geeks here, El-Erian means "of the aryans", no not the nazi aryans, the original aryans)

DevX101
The Wire
hackaflocka
Ah -- that would explain it. I never watched that show myself.
ghaff
I actually wasn't aware of it being either street slang or associated with The Wire. It seemed a pretty familiar term to me. A few different online sources suggest it started out as military slang to mean "re-enlist."
sremani
Interesting note, The earliest mentions of Rig Veda gods found thus far were not in India but in Northern Syria.
hackaflocka
There's a theory that "devi" and "devil" are connected. That the devis of the so-called pagans became the devils post christian conversion.
zht
?

I remember watching the episode of Simpsons where the Navy produced a series of music videos with subliminal messaging back when it first came out (apparently in 2001).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Blecch

Re-up as a term to re-enlist or re-sign up has been around for at least 15 years.

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hackaflocka
Interesting. I first heard of this term when Nicki Minaj came out with "The Re-up."
pfarnsworth
Of course it will. Investment will ebb and flow in cycles, just like it always has. Back in 2001 was a massive pullback in VC investment, and we very well may see something similar if there's a catastrophic downturn in the tech economy.

But it will always come back. There is no place like Silicon Valley because of the critical mass of talent and greed. There are far too many greedy people who want to make money that will always bring in the money.

NoPiece
If you think SV is greedy, go work in New York at an investment bank for a couple years. SV is full of naive do-gooders.
tonydiv
While the big "tourists," eg Fidelity, are investing, they aren't investing in the early stage froth. That's not to say Uber & co's valuations haven't been high, but I've found most investors to be here. Many of them have been here for quite some time too.

This article is a whole lot of speculation without much substance. What I'm most curious about is LP's effect on VC fund distribution. The big funds are still raising big funds, General Catalyst as an example this week. They still need to allocate that capital.

To answer my own question : I guess they'll be allocating it to the highest growth / most safe opportunities though. And at better valuations.

w1ntermute
> The big funds are still raising big funds, General Catalyst as an example this week. They still need to allocate that capital.

After the dotcom bust, there were many cases where VC funds just returned uninvested money to LPs, as it was evident that the IPO market had dried up.