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The Forgotten Origins of Silicon Valley
Apr 15, 2022 William H. Janeway shows how the venture capital industry has always piggybacked on US government investment.
William H. Janeway
William H. Janeway, a special limited partner at the private-equity firm Warburg Pincus, is an affiliated lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge and author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
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The Forgotten Origins of Silicon Valley 
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An Entrepreneur and a Swindler An Entrepreneur and a Swindler
Jan 13, 2022 William H. Janeway considers what Elizabeth Holmes’s fraud conviction says about the state of the broader innovation economy.
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Capital Is Not a Strategy Capital Is Not a Strategy
Jan 6, 2022 William H. Janeway thinks investors and entrepreneurs should recognize that the current financial environment can't last forever.
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The Evolution of American Capitalism The Evolution of American Capitalism
Aug 27, 2021 William H. Janeway reviews a major new work of economic history spanning the colonial era to the present.
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The Ecology of Innovation The Ecology of Innovation
May 28, 2021 William H. Janeway reviews two recent books with very different approaches to understanding how new technologies emerge and grow.
