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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

But it is not another Silicon Valley venture capital firm seeking extraordinary returns from small number of bets with short time horizons. Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. A talent magnet.