Vitalik wasn’t thinking about impressing VCs. He wasn’t thinking about company equity, either. In this brave new world of token sales, Ethereum could ditch startups’ mandatory trek to Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road. Ethereum didn’t need VC money because they could access investors from all over the world without them. Vitalik didn’t want VC money because, to him, Ethereum should be free and open for anyone to use, not owned by anyone.
