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VCs and especially the LP community.

Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

VCs call themselves “risk-reduction

Ilya Strebulaev • The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth

Professionalize education.

Adam Grant • Hidden Potential

Until recently, idea capital in tech was constrained, and mostly only accessible by startup founders. If you had an idea for improving public society that required money and talent to execute, and you didn’t do it as a startup, you either had to get the EA community to care about it, or – as the old joke goes – convince Peter Thiel to fund it.

Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines

Porter suggested, however, that it had disrupted an older pattern of companies behaving with a sense of citizenship.

Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“If we have enough data, I know we can make predictions,”

Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market

At least initially, all of these paths to great fortunes were idiosyncratic strategies that involved monetizing their brain power, knowledge, and expertise (that is, their own human capital and that of their employees) through the use of two potentially perilous elements: leverage and concentration (along with hard work and lots of luck, of course)

Ashvin B. Chhabra • The Aspirational Investor

(Translation: Non-Obvious thinkers can earn exponential money when the world “gets” the value of their unique intellectual capital.)

Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard

Entrepreneurship, Elasticity, and Ed-Med.