World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy

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Synopsis
An urgent and illuminating 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 of destruction in its wake. The venture capital playbook is causing unique harms to society. And in World Eaters, Catherine Bracy offers a window into the pernicious aspects of VC and shows us how its bad practices are bleeding into all industries, undermining the labor and housing markets and posing unique dangers to the economy at large. VC&’s creates a wide, powerful wake that impacts the average consumer just as much as it does investors and entrepreneurs. In researching this book, Bracy has interviewed founders, fund managers, contract and temp workers in the gig economy, and Limited Partners across the landscape. She learned that the current VC model is not a good fit for the majority of start-ups, and yet, there are too few options for early stage funding outside of VC dollars. And while there are some alternative paths for sustainable, responsible growth, without the help of regulators, there is not much motivation to drive investors from the roulette table that is venture capital. World Eaters is an eye-opening account of the ways that the values of contemporary venture capital hurt founders, consumers, and the market. Bracy&’s clear-eyed debut is a must-read for fans of Winners Take All, Super Pumped, and Brotopia, an appealing &“insider / outsider&” perspective on Silicon Valley, and those who are fascinated to look under the hood and learn why the modern economy is not working for most of us.
Copyright:
2025

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593473504
Related ISBNs:
9780593473481, 9798217016600, 9798217016617
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Catherine Bracy
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Technology, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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