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The Fathers of the Venture Capital Industry

Posted on February 09, 2010

What we think of as Venture Capital today is a pretty young profession. Modern VC firms first came into existence in the 1960s, started by the likes of Bill Draper, Pitch Johnson and Reid Dennis. These visionaries shaped the technology industry, and lay the groundwork for everything that we VCs do today. My friend Paul Holland and the folks at Foundation Capital have produced a new documentary that tells the story of the early days of the venture business. The film is called More than Money: The Untold Tale of Risk, Reward and the Original Venture Capitalists. Those original VCs chro...

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