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VC Pressure Drives Enshittification
Successful sites had to compete harder over time, which forced them to attract venture capital, whose escalating demands pushed operators to extract as many dollars as possible from users, beginning the process Cory Doctorow calls 'enshittification.'
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Craig NewmarkEvidence Quote
“they had to attract venture capital, I guess, who made more and more demands of them, where people had to extract whatever dollars they could out of their site”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:33:55 AM
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