every VC quits their principal job to start a company that connects startups and investors

there's some actual wisdom here, in that the benefits of working as a junior VC become asymmetrically bad unless you're in it to make partner. the longer you work at a startup, the more senior a VC you are. the reverse is not true

which is why, for god's sake, please, please, please think about WHY you want to be a VC before you ask how you can break into it. "i want to meet and work with interesting people" is not an answer

when VCs leave their jobs to start companies, their areas of *actual* expertise are usually narrow. you'd think that thesis-ing + diligence would mean a VC could start a company in ML Ops for example, and yet...this doesn't happen often. what does that tell you about diligence

part of the wonderful-ness of tech is that there's *way* more lateral freedom than in finance, healthcare, etc. customer support can become engineers. engineers can become PMs. Growth can become...anything. But VC does *not* follow that paradigm