Jingle Bells, Youtube Sells

At last night's Stirr networking party for Web 2.0 geeks, the Uprounds acappella group, led by Tim Chang of Gabriel Venture Partners, pictured here abusing a classic holiday tune. Jingle Bells, Youtube sells. You get the idea. Not quite as cringemaking as the lyrics — From Russia, not from Prussia — of the latest capitalist ballad from Tim Draper. But still. What is it with these venture capitalists? Not content with providing the usual combination of money and bad advice, they insist on inflicting their sophomoric acts on an audience that can't afford to boo them off the stage. After the jump, the full song.

Jingle Bells

Dishing out the dough
In the new Web two-oh way
O'er Sand Hill we go
Seeding all the way
Bells on cell phones ring
Mobile deals look bright
What fun it is when startups sell to Google overnight.

Jingle Bells, YouTube sells,
Facebook's on the way,
Oh what fun it is to do
A hot deal every day.

Jingle Bells, YouTube sells,
Facebook's on the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
The bubble of the day.

A year or two ago
I thought I'd make a play
Put five million bucks
In a high-priced Series A...

The team was rather poor
The business plan was weak
But what the heck, it's AJAX-based
We sold it at the peak.

Jingle Bells, YouTube sells
Facebook's on the way!
Oh, what fun it is to do
A hot deal every day! (ka-ching!)

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