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Paper Belt on Fire
The Fight for Progress in an Age of Ashes
Langbeschreibung
"Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance--a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher--start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? Who would do such a thing? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic. It fuses real-life personal drama with history, science, and philosophy to show how higher education and other institutions must evolve to meet the dire challenges of tomorrow"
Michael Gibson is the co-founder of the venture capital fund 1517, which is devoted to backing dropouts and people who never stepped foot on a college campus. Before his academic apostasy, he was working towards a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has written on innovation and technology for MIT's Technology Review, National Review, the Atlantic, and City Journal.
ISBN-13:
9781641772457
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.01.2023
Seiten:
344
Autor:
Michael Gibson
Gewicht:
726 g
Format:
234x157x36 mm
Sprache:
Englisch