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Seth Fiegerman

With just two sentences, Jon Stein can make you question everything you thought you knew about the startup world in 2016.

"It was a good market to be raising," Stein told Mashable on Tuesday morning, shortly after his financial services company Betterment announced raising a blockbuster $100 million round of venture capital funding. "I've never before seen so much interest."

Hear that noise? It's the sound of hundreds of startup founders weeping as they ride their hoverboards into the sunset.