Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made … - Charlie Munger

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For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

Charlie Munger

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

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