venture capitalist
Britishnoun
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The venture capitalist and LinkedIn co-founder said Feb. 3 on X that he knew Epstein “because of a fundraising relationship with MIT, which I very much regret.”
The race is far from over, and AI improvements are coming so quickly that the winner in one week or month might fall behind, said venture capitalists, executives and AI researchers.
In the commercial sector, around 75% of businesses which receive private funding from venture capitalists fail.
From BBC
In 2011, Marc Andreessen, the software engineer who co-authored the first widely used web browser before becoming a prominent venture capitalist, famously wrote a Wall Street Journal column titled, “Why Software is Eating the World.”
From MarketWatch
Tesla went public in 2010 because it needed money to build Musk’s vision for the automaker, a cash-intensive business with little chance of success in the eyes of venture capitalists.
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