VC's 'short kings' era ends as Benchmark-style boutique funds scale up
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-10-27
An article argues Benchmark and USV, the boutique 'short kings' of venture capital, are abandoning their intentionally-small model to underwrite trillion-dollar outcomes. Investor Martin Tobias adds that ever-larger funds will chase capital-intensive companies (space, defense, robotics), while B2B software needs orders of magnitude less capital — a structural bifurcation in VC.
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