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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 individuals prepared to buck the system and, they are saying, need to be richly rewarded and calmly taxed for doing so.
This largely white, largely male nook of finance has backed software program firms that develop quick and generate giant quantities of cash for a shrinking variety of Americans—firms like Google, Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb.
But they don’t create many roles for unusual individuals, 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 popular sample. Read the full story.
—Elizabeth MacBride
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