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Some stuff I am reading today morning:
Is the party in the markets over? (DR)
The world’s safest instrument just got dangerous (Market Watch)
Funding woes for Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence (ET)
How can one generate income from funds? (Morningstar)
India in early stages of a bull run (Ratnesh Kumar)
Mohnish Pabrai suffers massive losses (RJ)
Ronnie Screwvala’s success story (OB)
How Byju’s fills up the biggest gap in India’s education (Forbes)
Why I still won’t buy a house (Financial Samurai)
Cash In Hand = Happiness (WSJ)
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After all, while Silicon Valley is responsible for some truly astounding companies, its business dealings can also replicate one big confidence game in which entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and the tech media pretend to vet one another while, in reality, functioning as cogs in a machine that is designed to not question anything—and buoy one another all along the way.
It generally works like this: the venture capitalists (who are mostly white men) don’t really know what they’re doing with any certainty—it’s impossible, after all, to truly predict the next big thing—so they bet a little bit on every company that they can with the hope that one of them hits it big.
The entrepreneurs (also mostly white men) often work on a lot of meaningless stuff, like using code to deliver frozen yogurt more expeditiously or apps that let you say “Yo!” (and only “Yo!”) to your friends.
The entrepreneurs generally glorify their efforts by saying that their innovation could change the world, which tends to appease the venture capitalists, because they can also pretend they’re not there only to make money.
And this also helps seduce the tech press (also largely comprised of white men), which is often ready to play a game of access in exchange for a few more page views of their story about the company that is trying to change the world by getting frozen yogurt to customers more expeditiously.
The financial rewards speak for themselves. Silicon Valley, which is 50 square miles, has created more wealth than any place in human history.
In the end, it isn’t in anyone’s interest to call bullshit-from Vanity Fair