“I’m looking for [companies] where, you know, at the end of it, there’s some big payoff… You know, would that excite me?”

Johannes Lenhard
Dr. Johannes Lenhard is research coordinator of the Max Planck Cambridge Centre for the Study of Ethics, Economy, and Social Change (Max Cam). He is currently working on a book on the ethics of venture-capital investors, with fieldwork in Berlin, London, New York, and San Francisco, as well as on two handbooks on diversity, inclusion, and impact in, respectively, tech and venture capital.
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