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Ep. 173: Sebastian Mallaby on the Rise of Venture Capital and Their Impact on the World
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
Sebastian is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, where he spent two years as a contributing editor. He is the author of five books, including bestseller More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite and most recently The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future. In this podcast we discuss:
- How Venture Capital (VC) works
- Arthur Rock, father of VC
- Why Silicon Valley?
- 1972 and Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins
- The prepared mind
- Role of Stanford
- PayPal mafia
- Software and power of entrepreneur
- Andreesen Horowitz and PR
- Traits of VC founders
- Enter Softbank
- Do VCs have alpha
- Current state of VC
- Comparing hedge funds to VC
- Re-thinking Greenspan
- Books that influenced Sebastian: The Money Game (Smith)
You can find Sebastian’s latest book here and follow him on Twitter here.
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