Venture capital will soon be brimming with ghosts

Startups Weekly is a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Clubhouse Clubhouse, the latest in tech layoffs and why $1 billion in tech can’t save a startup. At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, VC Niko Bonatsos said that venture firms have to go through natural selection cycles and that it will be “survival of the fittest” and that some will leave the VC profession and others will lose senior partners to retirement. Bloomberg Beta investor Roy E. Bahat said that seasoned venture capitalists may be quietly going into “easy mode,” aka, becoming a less active, minimum viable player of the team. . . .