Tech has been an invaluable source of inspiration for books and television in the past decade. Thank you, Elizabeth Holmes, for Bad Blood and The Dropout. Thank you, Adam Neumann, for WeCrashed. And I’m going to echo the rest of the internet in asking for Jonah Hill to play Sam Bankman-Fried in the inevitable FTX movie. I have my popcorn ready.
Opinion
April 24, 2023
Get ready for a new kind of startup scandal
With the end of easy money, it’s going to be politics, not egos that make startups crash and burn.
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Eleanor Warnock is an advisor to VC firm Bek Ventures, and writes a newsletter on tech and writing. She was previously Sifted’s deputy editor. Find her on X and LinkedIn

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