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The Competitive Advantages of Permanent Capital - Pershing Square https://t.co/F08TwPaA09

When investors insist on steadily increasing quarterly earnings and don’t understand or cannot measure the value of purpose, it can be very hard to make the long-term investments required to become a purpose-driven firm. That’s why the third step toward reimagining capitalism is rewiring the capital markets. 53

Rebecca Henderson • Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

Malm and Carton consider and dismantle the optimism of carbon capture and geoengineering, and they pile up evidence for the extraordinary financial investment since 2020 in what they call “fossil capital.” Any meaningful energy transition would make those immense pools of capital worthless—oil that can’t be pumped, pipelines that can’t be used, pow... See more

As the cost of waste and resources increases, business can save money by hiring now-less-expensive labor and capital to save now-more-expensive resources.

Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism

We are no longer headed toward a smooth or linear transition. What lies ahead is volatile, uncertain, and spiky—marked by rupture rather than reform. As our current economic engines collapse, we’re witnessing a deepening inability to allocate capital toward the future. Capital is increasingly being mobilised to preserve existing assets—assets under... See more

The Value of Nothing: Capital versus Growth - American Affairs Journal

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‘whose owners and investors can keep them alive by constant waves of propaganda about their cutting edge technology which has yet to produce a profit (Uber, for example) but are supposedly part of ‘disruption’ culture. This advertising keeps the flow of investments going. These companies are using the talent of engineers and coders, and marketing s

Edward Chancellor • The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

3. Access to capital - Despite explosive growth in early stage venture funding, many SMBs and solopreneurs are unable to secure the funding they need to operate.

Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: Enabling entrepreneurship in the creator economy