Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby
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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Paul Graham and Patrick Collison
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of success and failure inside Silicon Valley's dominant venture capital firmsand how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation, and the global economy, writ large. Innovations rarely come from "experts." Elon Musk was not an "electric c...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
“His book on Venture Capital is similarly excellent (The Power Law)”
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