The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth

As it turned out, out of every 100 publicly traded firms founded since the 1970s, 50 were backed by VC funds.

venture capitalists are causally responsible for the launch of one-fifth of the 300 largest US public companies in existence today. Moreover, they estimate that three-quarters of the largest US VC-backed companies would not have existed or achieved their current scale without VC support.