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

"A classic...A book of exceptional reporting, analysis and storytelling." -Charles Duhigg
From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofMore Money Than Godcomes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valley's dominant venture-capital firms-and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy
Innovations rarely come from "experts." Elon Musk was not an "electric car person" before he started Tesla. When it comes to improbable innovations, a legendary tech VC told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot bepredicted, it can only bediscovered. 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...