Welcome To Midas Touch | Your Guide To The World Of Venture Capital

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Welcome to the Midas Touch, your weekly guide to the world of venture capital and startup fundraising. I’m Alex Konrad, a senior editor at Forbes and the editor of the Midas List since 2014. I’ve covered VC and startups for the past decade, from the tech industry's biggest personalities and most controversial firms to its unicorn breakouts and bootstrapped entrepreneurs.

With Midas Touch, reporter Becca Szkutak and I will break down what’s happening in this super-charged venture ecosystem and where it's headed next. Expect exclusive interviews with the minds of the Midas List, original reporting, analysis and scoops about the companies and investors you’ll want to know.

We know your time is valuable. Think of Midas Touch as your Sunday look-back on the week's most important stories, and a cheat sheet for the one to come.

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Midas Must-Reads

‘Signs of a bubble’: How immigrant investors Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson overcame the doubters to turn a $1.9 million bet on DoorDash into $440 million.

Venture changemakers: Under 30 standouts Frederik Groce and Sydney Sykes are pushing their industry forward with Black investor-focused organization BLCK VC.

The Outsider: The exclusive story of how CEO-for-hire Frank Slootman turned Snowflake into software’s biggest-ever IPO — and a historic investors’ windfall.

Sunrise or sunset? SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son talks WeWork, the Vision Fund, and why he’s always expected to get the last laugh.

From the archives: A year before Clubhouse, Marc Andreessen dished on his iconoclastic firm Andreessen Horowitz’s big ambitions and his belief we live in “the century of disagreeableness.”

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