Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 20th/21st January 2024
Venture capital is dead. Long live venture capital by Swiftscale
“‘The Global Financial Crisis kick-started the era of easy money, and venture capital (VC) saw a surge in popularity, with many individuals entering the field due to high returns and a perceptions of it being easy and fun. As one of the few legitimate financial products with the potential to offer a thousand-fold return on investment, the VC ecosystem became absolutely flush with cash - and they needed to spend it.’”
How to Walk and Talk Everything We Know by Kevin Kelly & Craig Mod
“The biggest constraint for the meal each evening is to provide a single table that fits everyone. The single conversation is the focus of the walk, so if you have 10 walkers you need to have a table that comfortably fits 10 so that everyone can hear and participate. Setting up a table to 10 can often be a challenge for some establishments, so we try to make that requirement clear from the early stages of planning. Smaller groups are easier to accommodate for the dinner conversation...”
Nelson Mandela taught me this: hope survives wherever people come together by Gordon Brown
“So with companies aware that groups of consumers cannot currently afford their goods, and with charities ready to work in partnership to prevent urgently needed goods being wasted or destroyed, this new multi-coalition of compassion is helping create a chain of hope connecting the richest corporates who can afford to be generous to the most hard-pressed of families who have nothing.”
Upcoming meals with 9others
Tuesday 30th January — Manchester — details and signup here.
Wednesday 31st January — London — details and signup here.