The Power Law av Sebastian Mallaby

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<p><b>From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it made</b><br><br>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 <i>predicted</i>, it can only be <i>discovered</i>. 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.<br><br>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 storyt