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Researching the power of finance, venture capital, and AI LSE/University of Oxford

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New in @finandsoc.bsky.social: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

11.02.2026 08:11 👍 54 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 7
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The political economy of venture capital: winners-take-all and founder control Abstract. In many US Tech corporations such as Meta, Alphabet, and SpaceX, founders still hold shareholder voting control. How can we better understand the

How has founder control shaped consolidated power in major US tech firms?

In a new SER article, @davvkamp.bsky.social examines how venture capital shifted toward a winners-take-all model after 2010, enabling founders to retain disproportionate control and influence

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03.12.2025 12:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The political economy of venture capital: winners-take-all and founder control Abstract. In many US Tech corporations such as Meta, Alphabet, and SpaceX, founders still hold shareholder voting control. How can we better understand the

How do tech founder-CEOs such as Zuckerberg and Musk stay in control of tech monopolies? @davvkamp.bsky.social argues that venture capital follows a winners-take-all logic in which founder control became crucial post-2010, helping to explain the concentration of power in US Tech.

24.11.2025 13:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Vital new paper from @davvkamp.bsky.social on the political economy of venture capital!

19.11.2025 13:59 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pleased to share my new paper in Socio-Economic Review on the political economy of venture capital. It argues that VC follows a winners-take-all logic in which founder control became crucial post-2010, helping to explain the concentration of power in US Tech academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

19.11.2025 13:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Subordinating ‘alt-finance’: How British venture capital became dependent on the US | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core Subordinating ‘alt-finance’: How British venture capital became dependent on the US

Recommended reading and timely, too, as the British Chancellor continues to falsely assume that pandering to financial fractions in the City will result in the investment which is so desperately needed across economy and society

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13.11.2025 12:02 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
NEP/RePEc link to paper

The political economy of venture capital: winners-take-all and founder control

03.11.2025 11:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The political economy of venture capital: winners-take-all and founder control Abstract. In many US Tech corporations such as Meta, Alphabet, and SpaceX, founders still hold shareholder voting control. How can we better understand the

Sharing a great new paper on VC from David Kampmann, LSE really leading the way on the new critical scholarship on VC
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04.11.2025 21:28 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A Palestinian girl cries out for food with her hands held out at a charity kitchen amid the famine in Gaza. She is surrounded by other young, anguished children. This photo was taken on Thurs July 11, 2025 after at least 10 children were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point. More Palestinians have now been killed just waiting for food than the number of victims killed in the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7.
Photograph credit is to Ebrahim Hajjaj of Reuters

A Palestinian girl cries out for food with her hands held out at a charity kitchen amid the famine in Gaza. She is surrounded by other young, anguished children. This photo was taken on Thurs July 11, 2025 after at least 10 children were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point. More Palestinians have now been killed just waiting for food than the number of victims killed in the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7. Photograph credit is to Ebrahim Hajjaj of Reuters

Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'.

A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

21.07.2025 14:57 👍 438 🔁 270 💬 19 📌 16
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It will go higher.

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25.07.2025 17:12 👍 956 🔁 305 💬 80 📌 47