How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the UniversityBy Michael GibsonNarrated by Alex Boyles
Length11h 18m
About this audiobook
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.
GenreBusiness and Economics, Biography and Memoir, Philosophy
Length11 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byAlex Boyles
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
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About the author
Michael Gibson
Michael Gibson is the cofounder 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.View all by Michael Gibson
