Sublime

The one-click app obscured the messy human reality of the working people behind it, who now had less bargaining power.

From that moment, Meredith Whitney became E. F. Hutton: When she spoke, people listened. Her message was clear: If you want to know what these Wall Street firms are really worth, take a cold, hard look at these crappy assets they’re holding with borrowed money, and imagine what they’d fetch in a fire sale. The vast assemblages of highly paid people

among the Silicon Valley set by Peter Thiel, our wants tend to be borrowed from other people.

Den Fujita,

The business hadn’t even really been Sam’s idea but Tara’s. Tara had been running the Centre for Effective Altruism, in Berkeley, and Sam, while at Jane Street, had become one of her biggest donors. Through the spring and summer of 2017, the two of them were on the phone constantly. At some point Sam revealed his romantic interest in her; at some o

Elinor Ostrom,

INDRA NOOYI

Neumanns needed to fund their increasingly lavish lifestyle.

and a surplus of hustle have ushered in a fairer world. But venture capital is social capital, doled out according to networks and affinity and comfort.