Kyle Harrison · 11 November 2026

009: Marks, Not Markets

Kyle Harrison, GP @ Contrary

Venture capital's opacity in startup valuations creates a structural problem: when auditors pushed GPs toward consensus marks in 2022, it replaced price discovery with committee-driven valuations. Drawing on research from Kerala's fish markets, the author argues that information asymmetry protects all micro-level players but undermines macro-level market efficiency and accurate pricing.

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