Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier
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English - May 17, 2019 04:00 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 234 ratingsNews Commentary News leadership finance business culture politics entrepreneur health interview entrepreneurship news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What if the vast majority of the high-growth tech unicorns emerging from Silicon Valley are not really technology or innovation companies? What if they are highly politicised, zero-sum enterprises? That's what Ajay Royan, the Indian-born Canadian who co-founded Mithral Capital, along with Peter Thiel, thinks might be the problem at the heart of the Silicon Valley investment proposition. Izabella Kaminska asks him how his fund is trying to differentiate itself from that model by focusing on unleveraged growth opportunities instead.
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