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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

Tang raised around $1.25 billion by mid 2025 from investors including Chinese tech giants and Hong Kong-based venture capitalist Neil Shen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless s passions.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Venture capitalists are increasingly questioning startup founders about their long-term commitment and potential early sales to larger AI labs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Silicon Valley startups are setting up open models, with some operating on shoestring budgets because of limited interest from venture capitalists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

This new regime—free money for capitalists, free markets for everyone else—plus the more or less instant rewriting of financial history vexed all sorts of people, but few were as enthusiastically vexed as Steve Eisman.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis