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The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
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94/100Critics
75/100Scholars
91/100Author:
Sebastian Mallaby
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
February 1, 2022
Business writer Sebastian Mallaby takes a deep dive into the waves of success and failure inside Silicon Valley's dominant venture-capital firms, exploring how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy.
What The Reviewers Say
Mallaby’s angle is fresh. Most people who write about Silicon Valley do so from the viewpoint of entrepreneurs who built companies with the backing of venture capitalists. Mallaby writes from the perspective of the venture capitalists themselves. He tells his story through an accumulation of smaller stories, each one phenomenally detailed and engaging. In so doing, he’s written a book that is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand modern-day Silicon Valley and even our economy writ large.
Mr. Mallaby tells a gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists.
Sebastian Mallaby’s sweeping and authoritative history of the venture capital revolution, from its cottage industry roots in the 1950s to its colossal influence today, tells an undercovered tale.
There have been many attempts to explain Silicon Valley’s success.
