Back in February, I penned a speculative article in regards to SoundCloud's interesting choices in venture capitalist partnership, and a comment was left by someone that said my opinion "proves that you have absolutely no understanding of how the SoundCloud business model works or how venture capital works and should be prefaced as wild conjecture." Obvious political and strategic moves were made, and a series of partnerships with companies that have the ability to cross-pollinate all social media platforms and mine your data for profit, but we're apparently just bloggers that have no idea how the real world works. Though there was a lack of concrete evidence to back our claims, the writing was on the wall, and all we had to do was sit back and wait.