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Sebastian Mallaby: What is venture capital good for?

Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society

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How to Find the Outliers

The key to the whole venture, is finding those outliers that, you knoware on the extreme right hand side of the curve. Most of the book is a sort of, i suppose, walking through the history of a people's attempts to do this as an investor. I would love to talk just a little bit about the false starts and why they didn't work out. Some we could start with something like a r d, which i found quite a fascinating story. And er, i think it made any time pressure on deplot of capital for a sao statesman even more important because of its origins.

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