Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Why does it need to be a small market?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing. The median holding is five years , some investments take ten years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. That VC might not even take the meeting. By their collective choices, they are risking our very lives. But bear with me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

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