How Venture Capital Made the Modern World (with Sebastian Mallaby)
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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The Turning Points in the History of Venture Capital
When i first started to meat venture capitalist in the mid nineties, was a much smaller industry. And now we have this world in 20 21, 22, where tiger globel does hundreds a year. That suggests that there has been some sort of turning point, or set of turning points in the history of venture capital. I thinkthat the kind of key inflection point came in early two thousand nine, when facebook was keen to raise a round of around 200 million plus dollars. Once that was done, every single technology investor paid attention and wanted to write these big cheques. The youth revolt e, which was crystallized by the moment mark zakeberg showed up at seco ten
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