The power law : venture capital and the making of the new future / Sebastian Mallaby.
By: Mallaby, Sebastian [author.].
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, ©2022Description: 482 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525559993.Subject(s): Venture capital -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area | High-technology industries -- Finance | New business enterprises -- Finance | Technological innovations -- Economic aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HG4963 .M334 2022 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018649 |
"A Council on Foreign Relations Book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-463) and index.
Introduction Unreasonable People -- Arthur Rock and Liberation Capital -- Finance Without Finance -- Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Activist Capital -- The Whispering of Apple -- Cisco, 3Com, and the Valley Ascendant -- Planners and Improvisers -- Benchmark, SoftBank, and "Everyone Needs $100 Million" -- Money for Google, Kind of for Nothing -- Peter Thiel, Y Combinator, and the Valley's Youth Revolt -- To China, and Stir -- Accel, Facebook, and the Decline of Kleiner Perkins -- A Russian, a Tiger, and the Rise of Growth Equity -- Sequoia's Strength in Numbers -- Unicorn Poker -- Conclusion Luck, Skill, and the Competition Among Nations.
"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 firms-and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation, and the global economy, writ large"--