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Innovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. Most attempts at discovery fail, but a few succeed at such a scale that they more than make up for everything else. That extreme ratio of success and failure is the power law that drives venture capital, Silicon Valley, the tech sector, and, by extension, the world.Drawing on unprecedented access to the most celebrated venture capitalists of all time, award-winning financial historian Sebastian Mallaby tells the story of this strange tribe of financiers who have funded the world's most successful companies, from Google to SpaceX to Alibaba. With a riveting blend of storytelling and analysis, The Power Law makes sense of the seeming randomness of success in venture capital, an industry that relies, for good and ill, on gut instinct and personality rather than spreadsheets and data. We learn the unvarnished truth about some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in the history of tech, from the comedy of errors that was the birth of Apple to the venture funding that fostered hubris at WeWork and Uber to the industry's notorious lack of women and ethnic minorities.Now the power law echoes around the world: it has transformed China's digital economy beyond recognition, and London is one of the top cities for venture capital investment. By taking us so deeply into the VCs' game, The Power Law helps us think about our own future through their eyes.

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Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including the bestselling More Money Than God and The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, the winner of the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives with his family in London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allen Lane (25 January 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241557348
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241557341
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 100 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 3.6 x 23.4 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

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Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist. He spent thirteen years on The Economist magazine, covering international finance in London and serving as the bureau chief in southern Africa, Japan, and Washington. He spent eight years on the editorial board of The Washington Post, focusing on globalization and political economy. His previous books are The World's Banker (2004), which was named as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times, and After Apartheid (1992), which was a New York Times Notable Book.

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Majid Kazi

A must read for any student of business

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 30 August 2022

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The book amazingly chronicles the advent of venture capitalists and covers the founding history of all large VC-backed cos (Cisco, Google, Apple and many more). It covers the history of all major VC firms and the venture capitalist thought process. It also covers the geopolitical tensions between the US and China and the future possibilities. Once you start this book, you won't rest till it's over.

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Vinay

History of Venture Capitalism - Worth it

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Started off slow but took off so good after 2-3 chapters. The kind of efforts and networking that goes into the wager is worth reading in here. This book really excited me about VC industry, which I've always found too haughty and narcissistic. But now I know why. There are part of this book which explains that well.

The book broadened my mind, it is very well written, chronology and geographical tip-toeing to my liking. Recommended.

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Book received in poor condition with cover page torn!

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Book received in damaged condition….. with dog ears and cover page torn. Disgusting!

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Epic read on history of evolution of Venture Capital.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 February 2022

Sebastian Mallaby has written a beautiful history of the evolution of the Venture Capital (VC) industry starting from its roots in Silicon Valley five decades ago to now. The title “The Power Law” intends to show that the bulk of VC returns come from a handful of winners. But don’t let the title fool you - this book is an intriguing and enriching narrative of the founding of various VC firms, the personalities of VCs and the founders they backed. It also traces the journey of beliefs of these firms and this asset class! It is masterful storytelling laced with intimate facts clearly gleaned from a rich network of people close to the action and a lot of intense research. Being a practising VC myself at a 10-year old firm (Prime Venture Partners), I was surprised and inspired by many facts, stories and anecdotes about the Venture industry.

The author attempts to answer provocative questions. For example, how much of VC investing is about skill vs luck? Can the best investments be predicted or can they only be discovered with time? What impact does the performance of the first fund have on the franchise? Does fund success beget more success? What leads to the downfall of certain franchises whilst others have succeeded at multi-generational transfers?

So whether you are an investor, an entrepreneur, or just a curious being, Mallaby’s book is a fantastic read on how bold entrepreneurs backed by bold venture capitalists have unleashed human potential.

(This is an excerpt from my book review at Business Line, India).

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Guide to be a Venture Capital Fund founder

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A detailed working strategies of Venture Capital Partner : All secrets bared in a great details .

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Yonca Dervisoglu

A brilliant survey of the history and impact of Venture Capital

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 February 2022

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I have been working in the tech industry for 20 years and learned so much from this fantastic book. Mallaby entertains as much as he informs, bringing the characters he discusses to life with anecdotes and stories peppered throughout. As such, The Power Law is an excellent read, deftly explaining the fascinating history of Venture Capital. It's a must-read if you want to better understand how Silicon Valley became what it is today, what we can learn from that in the rest of the world, how VC has evolved, how Venture Capitalists think and why VC investing is so different from traditional finance, and the impact VC has had on society.

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Appalling greedy people described with loving admiration

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 March 2022

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A nice account of the complex dealings in Silicon Valley.

How there was a kind of equality for the gifted and mostly highly qualified people that new projects needed. Some were also self-taught and had no formal qualifications, but had proved their talents. Looking after them was part of the process.

He does not mention the bad treatment of those who were not particularly needed, like Amazon warehouse staff. The book also fails to give details of how the three basics - advanced electronics, the package-switching for the internet and the easy-to-use hyperlinks of the World Wide Web - were all pioneered by rather different people. And made with public money and no thought of profit, either for military research or particle physics at CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

Nor does he notice that the gigantic profits going to a few people have no clear benefit to the society as a whole. Allowing for a population increased by vast numbers of immigrants, the USA grew no faster after the changes begun by Reagan than it had before.

But what it does say is interesting and informative. Some of the human stories have the same fascination as the early episodes of Dallas, or even The Sopranos.

Definitely a book you need to read.

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Denise L

Insightful, thoroughly researched and well-written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 February 2022

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An excellent historical, eye-opening and well-written account of the rising influential role of VC in the US and globally. The book is easy to follow, well-structured and full of amusing anecdotes about the early days of Facebook, Google, Amazon etc before they became world-famous, and the VCs who helped to shape and build their future. A highly enjoyable book!

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ACC

Best business book I have read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 February 2022

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This is not a good book, it is the best book on investing and what it takes to build a culture of successful investing I have ever read. Well researched, thorough, even-handed, thoughtful and also a good read. Well done Sebastian.

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Impressive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 September 2022

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A remarkable book; thorough and full of detail, at the same time as insightful analysis …. Recommended for everyone concerned with, or just interested in the VC industry.

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