Why this Recession is Actually a Gold Mine for Venture Capital

Paul Zhao
3 min readNov 28, 2022

In the best of times and the worst of times, performant entrepreneurs will thrive, survive, and prevail.

miner in a mining cart coming out of a gold mine
Courtesy: Roman Klco

VC Focus During Lean Times

Tech has been arguably overdue for a correction of sorts, not unlike high finance during the 2008 Great Recession. And VCs have tightened their belts in anticipation of the impending…

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Paul Zhao

Father, husband, former entrepreneur, corporate PM. I’m constantly looking for diversions to keep the neurons firing, if only a little.