BOOTSTRAPPED VS VENTURE BACKED STARTUPS If you run a bootstrapped business using VC strategies, you will lose. They are different games with different rules. I REALLY felt how different while listening to Travis Kalanick on David Senra. Travis subsidized rides to buy the market, ate massive losses on purpose to spin up the network effects, and went from a $6B to a $17.5B valuation in 2 months to turn money into a weapon. It's a masterclass. And if you're bootstrapped, most of the movse he…