No Limits Quotes

“As for my own personal awakening, in a “Who is John Galt?” fashion, that happened right in the middle of 2017, when a young fellow asked me if he should raise money through Initial Coin Offerings for his new restaurant, which would offer pizzas and pastas here in Los Angeles.
As he caught sight of the horror in my eyes, he quickly added, “but it will be gluten-free, of course.”
― Victoria Silchenko, No Limits: Modern Poetry For Modern People

“I am not stating that every startup deserves to succeed or should get funding without effort. I am saying that the pitching arena should start shifting toward a reversed scene, where natural selection, in a Darwinian fashion, applies to investors pitching themselves—showing how they can help and contribute beyond just money.
Until that happens, our modern startup world can best be described exactly as Jennifer Lopez’s character put it in her 2019 hit movie Hustlers:
“We are all living in a gigantic strip club where you got people tossing the money… and people doing the dance.”
― Victoria Silchenko, No Limits: Modern Poetry For Modern People