Politico March 14, 2025
With help from Alfred Ng
Happy Friday, and welcome to The Future in 5 Questions. This week we talk with Catherine Bracy, a civic technologist and CEO of the advocacy group TechEquity whose new book, “World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy,” is getting attention for its provocative argument that the structure of venture capital – the financial engine of the tech industry — has a distorting effect not just on companies and their values, but on American society overall. With Elon Musk currently running a startup-style disruption playbook on the federal government itself, she talks to DFD about the puzzling opacity of private tech giants, how “moneyball for startups” could improve the economy — and the very...
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