“In many parts of Silicon Valley, it seemed misguided to regard the U.S. economy as reliant solely on Wall Street. The future still depended on entrepreneurs and innovations and green-tech businesses getting “traction,” as the V.C.’s at Kleiner liked to say. Kleiner was not the only venture firm that had suddenly seen the future and decided it was green.” Gertner’s piece discusses how current environmental and energy challenges are beginning to “legitimize the prospects of business ideas that in many cases had spent decades on the economic fringe.”
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