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The Power Law Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Sebastian Mallaby

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The Ezra Klein Show

Yergin recommended Mallaby's book about venture capital's role in shaping modern technology and the future economy.

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The other book I read has a title called The Power Law, and the subtitle is The Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby.

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Yergin recommended Mallaby's book about venture capital's role in shaping modern technology and the future economy.

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The other book I read has a title called The Power Law, and the subtitle is The Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby.

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The book was described as exceptionally insightful and recommended for listeners of the podcast. It delves deeper into venture capital than most other resources, covering early venture capital funds, returns, product venture capital, and the evolution of investment structures.

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It's already so good and this is another one where like listeners of the show will especially eat this up The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby

— Episode: Holiday Special 2022

Episode: Holiday Special 2022

The book was described as exceptionally insightful and recommended for listeners of the podcast. It delves deeper into venture capital than most other resources, covering early venture capital funds, returns, product venture capital, and the evolution of investment structures.

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It's already so good and this is another one where like listeners of the show will especially eat this up The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby

You and I have done research on 250 companies and all these venture funds and talked to the people that started a lot of these Venture funds and Sebastian knows more it just goes deeper I mean he just talks about these investments that like we think we've talked about the best investments of all time There are more and like He cites them all numerically, He cites returns on early venture capital funds He takes you all the way through product venture capital like I mean there's George doryo and then Arthur Rock and he talks about like how all those partnerships sort of led to the next ones and how Certain structures were bad and then the invention of the private limited partnership fixed all these problems

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