capitalist

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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

Venture capitalist David Sacks’ company, Craft Ventures, also announced in December that it has opened a new satellite office in Austin.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

In the midst of the cloud’s emergence in 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared that “software is eating the world.”

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil—which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer