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Why Kleiner, NEA and Oak Hill structurally cannot hold this

A ten-year fund life cannot hold a multi-century instrument. The structures that can are the ones organized around perpetual trusts — and there are not many of them.

7 stopsFor: Multi-generational capital, family offices, sovereign wealth, and public-benefit trustsAll paths
Conventional venture is not hostile to this. It is structurally incapable of holding it, which is a different and more interesting problem.
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Each stop is a page in the graph. The order is an argument — but every one of them is also a door into the rest of it, so you can leave the path wherever it stops being useful.

01The Wallenberg sphere: what one person with standing can actually doA hundred and seventy years organized around multi-generational public-benefit trusts. The closest existing analog to what this actually is.→02Meta FundThe instruments, and why the senior ones are backed by a protocol claim rather than by a company.→03I signed the clause that removed me as CEO. Two years later they used itWhat a ten-year fund life produces under stress: a discretionary lever, agreed to in good faith years earlier, pulled by a partner facing personal ruin in a collapsing market.→04Skin in the game made my investor behave worse, not better — and it cost me the companyAnd why. Bass's full-recourse model genuinely mitigates the Spence asymmetry — and creates a worse failure mode in extremis, because the downside becomes existential rather than notional.→05Liquidity PoolThe Exchange Root: 7.5% of all settled value, in perpetuity, surviving the insolvency of every operating company including the network's own.→06Dick Kramlich of NEA liked the pitch and was overruled by his own partnershipThe other model, and its limits. A non-hierarchical partnership whose founder liked the pitches and was overruled by his own partners.→07Sovereign Accelerators: why heads of state and royalty are in this graphAnd the version that generates public benefit trusts inside a jurisdiction rather than returns outside it.→
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The point

The collateral is not a company, a portfolio or a reserve. It is a protocol-level claim on the settlement of an entire network — which is the first instrument in a long time whose duration actually matches the thing it is funding.

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