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

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"A rare and unsettling look inside aĀ subculture of unparalleled influence.ā€ ā€”Jane Mayer

"A classic...A book of exceptional reporting, analysis and storytelling.ā€ ā€”Charles Duhigg

From the New York Times bestselling author of More Money Than God comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valleyā€™s dominant venture-capital firmsā€”and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy


Innovations rarely come from ā€œexperts.ā€ Elon Musk was not an ā€œelectric car personā€ before he started Tesla. When it comes to improbable innovations, a legendary tech VC told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. It is the nature of the venture-capital game that most attempts at discovery fail, but a very 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 the VC business, all of Silicon Valley, the wider tech sector, and, by extension, the world.
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In The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby has parlayed unprecedented access to the most celebrated venture capitalists of all timeā€”the key figures at Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Accel, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as Chinese partnerships such as Qiming and Capital Todayā€”into a riveting blend of storytelling and analysis that unfurls the history of tech incubation, in the Valley and ultimately worldwide. We learn the unvarnished truth, often for the first time, about some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in Valley history, from the comedy of errors at the birth of Apple to the avalanche of venture money that fostered hubris at WeWork and Uber.
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VCsā€™ relentless search for grand slams brews an obsession with the ideal of the lone entrepreneur-genius, and companies seen as potential ā€œunicornsā€ are given intoxicating amounts of power, with sometimes disastrous results. On a more systemic level, the need to make outsized bets on unproven talent reinforces bias, with women and minorities still represented at woefully low levels. This does not just have social justice implications: as Mallaby relates, Chinaā€™s homegrown VC sector, having learned at the Valleyā€™s feet, is exploding and now has more women VC luminaries than America has ever had. Still, Silicon Valley VC remains the top incubator of business innovation anywhereā€”it is not where ideas come from so much as where they go to become the products and companies that create the future. By taking us so deeply into the VCsā€™ game, The Power Law helps us think about our own future through their eyes.

This book title, The Power Law (Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future), ISBN: 9780525559993, by Sebastian Mallaby, published by Penguin Publishing Group (January 25, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Sebastian Mallaby
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
496
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group (January 25, 2022)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780525559993
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052555999X
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27.8oz
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6.41" x 9.51" x 1.63"
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