Sebastian Mallaby on the Rise of Venture Capital and Their Impact on the World
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
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The Utopian Hype of Startup Growth
There's an implicit technological utopianism, belief ideology behind this. And there was also another element of making a change to the world as well. I think it wasn't always utopian. If you go back to the earlier part of the history, I described in my book in the 60s, 70s, 80s, it was a more sober engineering culture. Imagine those people with neatly parted hair and pens popping out of their white shirt pocket.I think it was a bit more like that, not everybody that was like that, but there was an element of that. And I think the utopianism came in when you have the tech boom, I mean, the internet boom specifically. At
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