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The Financialization of Disruptive Technology

The Agile Manager

A recent FT Lex article on biotech investing drives the point home: "A 20-year study found only one-fifth of exits were profitable. Cheap capital makes it easy for anybody to enter the innovation game. Deep pocketed investors make it expensive to stay in the innovation game. Investment yields are highly concentrated.

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What I Read in 2017

Tim Kadlec

The setting is imaginative and full of unique biotech. Mord the bear, a massive bear, generally controls the city though he is opposed by some, most notably a woman named “The Magician” The real story here, though, is the relationship between Rachel and a creature called Borneā€”a biotech creature that she ends up raising.

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