Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The algorithm isn’t good enough to distinguish Facebook from MySpace, so it won’t help venture capitalists do their work. The second bit of pushback concerns the argument, put forward by economists such as Larry Summers and Robert Gordon , that America is facing a period of slow economic growth. startup hubs.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then, after hearing too many young women’s stories of venture capitalists who asked for sex in return for funding, I stepped back from participating in the startup ecosystem, the driving economy of Silicon Valley. (And, moreover, having sex with in the office – I saw that firsthand, too, though I wish I could unsee it).

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