Why work in banking when you could work in fintech and why work in fintech when you could work for the organizations funding the fintechs? This was Apollo’s pitch to potential employees during its investor day this week. – “Not a […]
Tag: Venture Capital
The Real Reason There Aren’t More Women in VC
I was in New York several weeks ago, going to meet a noted startup investor named Pete (not his real name). During the course of our conversation about business ideas, I decided to ask him his thoughts on why there […]
The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon Valley
Deep inside a Silicon Valley unicorn lurks a time bomb. It is a peculiarity of venture capital financing that the engine that pumps money into a promising start-up can later cause the same start-up to self-destruct. With all the hoopla […]
A Venture Capital Giant Says: Bubble? What Bubble?
The unicorns are multiplying, but if Andreessen Horowitz is right, the highflying venture capital community will have cause for concern when the inevitable thinning of the herd takes place. The unicorns, of course, are the 60-odd technology start-ups that have […]