June 2020

Enterprise capitalists promote themselves as the highest of the heap in Silicon Valley. They’re the expertise spotters, the cowboys, the chance takers; they assist individuals prepared to buck the system and, they are saying, should be richly rewarded and evenly taxed for doing so.

This largely white, largely male nook of finance has backed software program corporations that develop quick and generate giant quantities of cash for a shrinking variety of Individuals—corporations like Google, Fb, Uber, and Airbnb. 

However they don’t create many roles for extraordinary individuals, particularly in contrast with the businesses or industries they disrupt. And issues have been slowing down. Not too long ago, enterprise capitalists have discovered fewer and fewer concepts that match their most popular sample. Learn the total story.

—Elizabeth MacBride

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