June 2020
Venture capitalists promote themselves as the highest of the heap in Silicon Valley. They are the expertise spotters, the cowboys, the danger takers; they assist folks keen to buck the system and, they are saying, should be richly rewarded and frivolously taxed for doing so.
This largely white, largely male nook of finance has backed software program corporations that develop quick and generate giant quantities of cash for a shrinking variety of Americans—corporations like Google, Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb.
But they don’t create many roles for bizarre folks, particularly in contrast with the businesses or industries they disrupt. And issues have been slowing down. Recently, enterprise capitalists have discovered fewer and fewer concepts that match their most well-liked sample. Read the total story.
—Elizabeth MacBride
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