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Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier
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46 minutes
Released:
May 17, 2019
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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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
May 17, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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