| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "A Council on Foreign Relations Book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2022). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Mallaby, Sebastian. Power law New York : Penguin Press, 2022 9780525559993 |
| LCCN | 2021038349 |
| ISBN | 0525560009 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9780525560005 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| Standard identifier# |
302675953 |
| Stock number | AC2AC646-F5AF-4F24-B282-3D4A32FB8DCB OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
