capitalist
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Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously said in 2011 External link that software is eating the world.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
After a lousy investing experience in the 1990s, Warren Buffett quipped that “if there had been a capitalist at Kitty Hawk, he should have shot down Orville and done us all a favor.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He was nearly wiped out but got back on his financial footing when a venture capitalist asked him in 1986 to be chairman of the board, with stock options, of a new company called Magellan.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
“It’s totally unprecedented for one company to be so active across the board,” said Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist and fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
When I ask Kim what a capitalist is, he tells me it is someone who is from the city.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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