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A major angel investor in high tech companies, who is a woman, told me she didn’t like to invest in ventures led by women  the vision of male entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison or Steve Jobs. Some women build large businesses, she explained, but they’re usually based on girly products. Women don’t build companies that are based on disruptive technologies and have the power to change the world.  Even Amazon, a name associated with...

We all want to make some kind of mark on the world, to leave something behind that shows that we were here and we mattered.  Few would argue about that.  The real issue is what kind of mark we want to make.  In recent years, young people have increasingly described that mark in monetary terms—so many want to be a millionaire, or a billionaire even.

Indeed some recent college polls asking students what matters more to them when...