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World Eaters : How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy / Catherine Bracy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC , [2025]Copyright date: ©2025Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593473481
  • 0593473485
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 332/.04154
Contents:
The methodology : how venture capitalists think -- The founders : how VC undermines entrepreneurship -- Venture capital and labor : how the gig economy has upended the job market -- Venture capital and housing : capsizing the American dream -- The pathbreakers : can venture capital be done differently? -- The changemakers : how to scale what works.
Summary: "An urgent and illuminating insider/outsider perspective that offers a window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture capital ethos is reaching all areas of our lives, into everything from healthcare to food to entertainment to the labor market, and leaving a trail destruction in their wake"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Graphs on pages 22 and 28 courtesy of Jenna Van Hout" -- title page verso.

The methodology : how venture capitalists think -- The founders : how VC undermines entrepreneurship -- Venture capital and labor : how the gig economy has upended the job market -- Venture capital and housing : capsizing the American dream -- The pathbreakers : can venture capital be done differently? -- The changemakers : how to scale what works.

"An urgent and illuminating insider/outsider perspective that offers a window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture capital ethos is reaching all areas of our lives, into everything from healthcare to food to entertainment to the labor market, and leaving a trail destruction in their wake"--Provided by publisher.

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