{"id":5979,"date":"2014-06-29T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2014-06-29T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T01:54:11","slug":"the-ipo-is-dying-marc-andreessen-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5979","title":{"rendered":"The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/6\/26\/5837638\/the-ipo-is-dying-marc-andreessen-explains-why\">Timothy Lee<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is so powerful in the conventional wisdom right now. I love the Daily Show like everyone else does. But literally [Jon Stewart&#8217;s] answer to every issue is Congress should pass a law. [People think you can] solve any problem by passing enough laws.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;I don&#8217;t see the world getting less dramatic. I don&#8217;t see the world calming down.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;The loop we&#8217;re in now is that people are getting upset and disappointed by the stock market. There are no growth stocks, which means there&#8217;s no growth. Stock market returns have been weak for 15 years, which is exactly what you&#8217;d expect if you took all the growth out. Everyone is upset the stock market isn&#8217;t performing. The worse the results get, the more regulation you get. It&#8217;s in its own kind of doom loop. Unless something happens to shock the system a lot, our assumption is it gets worse, not better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Lee: This is so powerful in the conventional wisdom right now. I love the Daily Show like everyone else does. But literally [Jon Stewart&#8217;s] answer to every issue is Congress should pass a law. [People think you can] solve any problem by passing enough laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don&#8217;t see the world getting less dramatic. I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}