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This warning, one of several recent reality checks on AI, comes from a venture capitalist, investor and research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

SpaceX had barely finished making the most exorbitant market claim in capitalist history before word leaked that Anthropic would make a bigger one.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Venture capitalist Joshua Kushner, who was set to be the lead investor in Fifa president Gianni Infantino's scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup, says he now regrets joining the proposal.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

He was searching for funding for Thrive when he scored a meeting with venture capitalist Joel Cutler, co-founder of General Catalyst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

De Soto was a novel figure: half warrior, half venture capitalist.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“If you look at the history of Silicon Valley, the original venture capitalists were all people that came out of the original semiconductor companies and underwrote semiconductor investments for a long time,” Raghuram said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

With venture capitalists -- and even sovereign wealth funds -- no longer able to play in that league, higher sums can only be found on the public markets.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Venture capitalists lose money on most of what they fund, and nobody calls a failed startup a scandal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Private-equity firms and venture capitalists have taken note and are now drowning his staff with as many as 500 pitches a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times