Two years ago, 23-year-old Rubén Dominguez Ibar was interning at Spanish VC Mundi Ventures and decided to write and publish some thoughts on a website which was “a bit of a thing”.
Opinion
July 18, 2025
The substackification of VC
If all VCs become content creators, what does that mean for the industry?
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