The Power Law Venture Capital and the Art Of Disruption
Sebastian Mallaby
The Power Law
Venture Capital and the Art Of Disruption
Sebastian Mallaby
- Wydawnictwo: Allen Lane
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 9780241557341
- Ilość stron: 482
- Format: 15.0 x 23.2 cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping,
character-driven story of venture capital and the world it made
Innovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller;
Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a
legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot
be predicted, it can only be discovered. Most attempts at discovery
fail, but a few succeed at such a scale that they more than make up for
everything else. That extreme ratio of success and failure is the power
law that drives venture capital, Silicon Valley, the tech sector, and,
by extension, the world.
Drawing on unprecedented access to the most celebrated venture
capitalists of all time, award-winning financial historian Sebastian
Mallaby tells the story of this strange tribe of financiers who have
funded the world's most successful companies, from Google to SpaceX to
Alibaba. With a riveting blend of storytelling and analysis, The Power
Law makes sense of the seeming randomness of success in venture capital,
an industry that relies, for good and ill, on gut instinct and
personality rather than spreadsheets and data. We learn the unvarnished
truth about some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in
the history of tech, from the comedy of errors that was the birth of
Apple to the venture funding that fostered hubris at WeWork and Uber to
the industry's notorious lack of women and ethnic minorities.
Now the power law echoes around the world: it has transformed China's
digital economy beyond recognition, and London is one of the top cities
for venture capital investment. By taking us so deeply into the VCs'
game, The Power Law helps us think about our own future through their
eyes.
Szczegóły: The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
Tytuł: The Power Law
Podtytuł: Venture Capital and the Art Of Disruption
Autor: Sebastian Mallaby
Wydawnictwo: Allen Lane
ISBN: 9780241557341
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 482
Format: 15.0 x 23.2 cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.64 kg