TY - BOOK AU - Mallaby,Sebastian TI - The power law: venture capital and the making of the new future SN - 9780525559993 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Press KW - Venture capital KW - California KW - San Francisco Bay Area KW - High technology industries KW - Finance KW - New business enterprises KW - Technological innovations KW - Economic aspects N1 - "A Council on Foreign Relations Book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-463) and index; Introduction Unreasonable People -- Arthur Rock and Liberation Capital -- Finance Without Finance -- Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Activist Capital -- The Whispering of Apple -- Cisco, 3Com, and the Valley Ascendant -- Planners and Improvisers -- Benchmark, SoftBank, and "Everyone Needs $100 Million" -- Money for Google, Kind of for Nothing -- Peter Thiel, Y Combinator, and the Valley's Youth Revolt -- To China, and Stir -- Accel, Facebook, and the Decline of Kleiner Perkins -- A Russian, a Tiger, and the Rise of Growth Equity -- Sequoia's Strength in Numbers -- Unicorn Poker -- Conclusion Luck, Skill, and the Competition Among Nations N2 - "From the New York Times bestselling author comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of success and failure inside Silicon Valley's dominant venture capital firms-and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation, and the global economy, writ large"-- ER -