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What Happened to the Future?

Founders Fund (Bruce Gibney) · 2011

"Venture abandoned hard technology for trivial consumer apps; 'we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.'"

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Peter Thiel and Founders Fund published a manifesto titled 'What Happened to the Future?', famously stating: 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.' It was a critique of the venture capital industry's shift away from hard technology.

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