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Uber vs Ola: It's not capital dumping - it's about good & bad investments

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Mahesh Murthy
Some investments are sensible and work out. Some are terrible, and don't. Can we stop the silly debate on protecting bad investments, and move on?

One wouldn't think it'd get to this. But now I see executives from two different venture capital funds (or VCs), each of whom is almost entirely funded by overseas money, asking for other overseas money to NOT be put into rivals of their investees.

Wow. Before we dive in, a little backstory.

The backstory.

It started with the founders of foreign-funded Flipkart and Ola calling for a press conference to suddenly make

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