ISBN号:9780525637714
书名:The Power Law
作者:Sebastian Mallaby
出版日期:2022-01-25
英文简介:
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist “A gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists.
” – Daniel Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal “A must-read for anyone seeking to understand modern-day Silicon Valley and even our economy writ large.
” -Bethany McLean, The Washington Post “A rare and unsettling look inside a subculture of unparalleled influence.
” –Jane Mayer “A classic.
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A book of exceptional reporting, analysis and storytelling.
” –Charles Duhigg From the New York Times bestselling author of More Money Than God comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture-capital firms–and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy Innovations rarely come from “experts.
” Elon Musk was not an “electric car person” before he started Tesla.
When it comes to improbable innovations, a legendary tech VC told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered.
It is the nature of the venture-capital game that most attempts at discovery fail, but a very 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 the VC business, all of Silicon Valley, the wider tech sector, and, by extension, the world.
In The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby has parlayed unprecedented access to the most celebrated venture capitalists of all time–the key figures at Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Accel, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as Chinese partnerships such as Qiming and Capital Today–into a riveting blend of storytelling and analysis that unfurls the history of tech incubation, in the Valley and ultimately worldwide.
We learn the unvarnished truth, often for the first time, about some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in Valley history, from the comedy of errors at the birth of Apple to the avalanche of venture money that fostered hubris at WeWork and Uber.
VCs’ relentless search for grand slams brews an obsession with the ideal of the lone entrepreneur-genius, and companies seen as potential “unicorns” are given intoxicating amounts of power, with sometimes disastrous results.
On a more systemic level, the need to make outsized bets on unproven talent reinforces bias, with women and minorities still represented at woefully low levels.
This does not just have social justice implications: as Mallaby relates, China’s homegrown VC sector, having learned at the Valley’s feet, is exploding and now has more women VC luminaries than America has ever had.
Still, Silicon Valley VC remains the top incubator of business innovation anywhere–it is not where ideas come from so much as where they go to become the products and companies that create the future.
By taking us so deeply into the VCs’ game, The Power Law helps us think about our own future through their eyes.
中文简介:
入围《金融时报》年度商业图书被《经济学人》评为 2022 年最佳图书资本家。
” – Daniel Rasmussen，华尔街日报 “任何想了解现代硅谷乃至我们的经济的必读之作。
” -Bethany McLean，《华盛顿邮报》 ——简·梅尔 “经典之作……一本关于出色报道、分析和讲故事的书。
” ——查尔斯·杜希格 (Charles Duhigg) 纽约时报畅销书作者 More Money Than God 讲述了硅谷占主导地位的风险投资公司惊人的坦率和亲密的故事——以及他们的战略和命运如何塑造创新之路和全球经济很少来自“专家”。
在创立特斯拉之前，埃隆马斯克并不是一个“电动汽车人”。
谈到不可能的创新，一位传奇的科技风投告诉塞巴斯蒂安马拉比，未来无法预测，只能被发现。
大多数发现尝试都以失败告终，这是风险投资游戏的本质，但只有极少数成功，其规模足以弥补其他一切。
成功与失败的极端比例是推动风险投资业务、整个硅谷、更广泛的科技行业乃至整个世界的幂律。
在《幂次法则》中，塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比利用前所未有的机会接触了有史以来最著名的风险投资家——红杉资本、凯鹏华盈、Accel、Benchmark 和安德森霍洛维茨基金的关键人物，以及启明资本和今日资本等中国合作伙伴——将故事讲述和分析融为一体，揭示了硅谷乃至全球的科技孵化历史。
我们了解了关于硅谷历史上一些最具标志性的胜利和臭名昭著的灾难的不加掩饰的真相，通常是第一次，从苹果诞生时的错误喜剧到导致 WeWork 和 Uber 狂妄自大的风险投资雪崩。
风投们对大满贯的不懈追求催生了对孤独企业家天才理想的痴迷，被视为潜在“独角兽”的公司被赋予了令人陶醉的力量，有时会带来灾难性的后果。
在更系统的层面上，对未经证实的人才进行过大押注的需要加剧了偏见，女性和少数族裔的比例仍然低得可怜。
这不仅对社会正义有影响：正如 Mallaby 所说，在硅谷脚下学习的中国本土风险投资行业正在爆炸式增长，现在拥有的女性风险投资名人比美国以往任何时候都多。
尽管如此，硅谷 VC 仍然是任何地方商业创新的顶级孵化器——与其说创意来自哪里，不如说他们去哪里成为创造未来的产品和公司。
通过让我们深入了解风险投资的游戏，《风险投资史》帮助我们通过他们的眼光思考我们自己的未来。
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