The Hard Truth About Deep Tech

European Straits #124

Dear all,

This is the week of The Revolt of the Public! Martin Gurri, the author of the book, is in Paris and we’ll be hosting him tonight for an event that should resonate with current affairs—from Trump’s state visit to the UK and Theresa May’s resignation to the aftermath of the Gilets Jaunes crisis in France. Here’s where you can register: Fireside chat with Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of The Public 🤗.

I’d also like to point out that Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road just came out. When I first considered entering the venture capital industry back in 2012, there were so few books that you could read to simply learn the history of the thing, what it was all about, and how exactly it worked.

The first book that I finally found, Bill Janeway’s Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, was illuminating and became a work companion that I frequently go back to. But I was quite surprised that no handbook existed for anyone wanting to learn about venture…