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That argument is a step away from arguing that incubator companies are taking advantage of the younger tech generation. Along the lines of... by selling the illusion of likely startup success, and offering support in startups and entrepreneurship, incubators basically decrease their own investment variance and increase their own odds of successful investment performance, while the younger founders will usually (outside of the rare big winners) lose out on a few years of earning potential in a temporarily hot economy.



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