Bill Janeway, Economist, Venture Capitalist, on Tech, Finance, Innovation

Barry Ritholtz interviews Bill Janeway on this edition of Masters in Business (Audio released January 3, 2016) by Bloomberg View: “IPOs are the new down round" says Venture Capitalist Bill Janeway. Janeway is a managing partner at Warburg Pincus (warburgpincus.com) and author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State. He attended Princeton undergrad, and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University on a Marshall scholarship.

Known as a “key creator of modern venture capital,” Janeway helped to created BEA Systems, which connected software applications to databases across much of the Internet. The initial cash investment of $54 million became a payout of $6.5 billion within six years. His work operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and economics. Janeway funded the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance in 2001 and funded the annual Princeton-Cambridge Finance Seminars in 2004.

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