Nouncapitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Noun
Srinivasan has worn many identities in public—biomedical entrepreneur, Stanford professor, venture capitalist, crypto exec, potential head of Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration, Covid sage, gadfly up the nose of The New York Times. Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022 In the Senate, Trump has backed 35-year-old Blake Masters, a venture capitalist who was the chief operating officer of Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, and the president of Thiel's foundation.CBS News, 1 Aug. 2022 The turbulence of the company’s early days helped create a culture that was well-suited to weather the challenges of the past year, said Ryan Moore, a Boston venture capitalist who was an early DraftKings investor and still sits on its board.BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2021 In response to the video and the minimal funding Khadka received from Uber to cover cleaning and lost wages, Cyan Banister, a venture capitalist who was an early Uber investor, started a GoFundMe with a goal of raising $20,000.Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021 Adtalem sold the school in 2018 to Cogswell Capital, an investment firm owned by venture capitalist and financier Bradley Palmer. Stacy Cowley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022 Thomas, designer of the New Beetle as well as others like the original Audi TT concept, joined Meyers Manx as CEO in 2020 following the brands acquisition by venture capitalist and Manx enthusiast Phillip Sarofim. Sasha Richie, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2022 After a bruising seven-way primary in Ohio, Donald Trump’s choice for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination—venture capitalist and author J.D. Vance—won Tuesday. Karl Rove, WSJ, 4 May 2022 After landing Trump's backing in the Senate race, venture capitalist and author J.D. Vance saw reinforcements in Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawley join him on the campaign trail over the weekend. Rick Rouan, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
Adjective
Every day, in our capitalist society, we are bombarded with advertising and media messaging that does not have our best interests at heart. Jason Wilson, Washington Post, 25 July 2022 Yet putting these three elements together and considering them alongside the trajectory of our capitalist society reveals a different kind of urban future. Paris Marx, Wired, 5 July 2022 Maintaining focus and attention may have previously served the order of upholding a capitalist society, to engage us in labour. Dr Sanah Ahsan, refinery29.com, 6 June 2022 But China is a state capitalist neoliberal society. Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 2 June 2022 One of the primary indicators and drivers of such an event within a capitalist society is human emotion. Alex Wagner, SPIN, 1 June 2022 The stock market performs multiple functions in a capitalist society. Steve Denning, Forbes, 16 May 2022 Cornfeld said something like how Frank Zappa said art cannot survive in a capitalist society. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 Our stepwise innovations in CI systems—such as representative, nation-state democracy, capitalist and noncapitalist markets, and bureaucratic technocracy—have already shaped the modern world.Wired, 15 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
probably borrowed from French capitaliste "person possessing capital," from capitalcapital entry 2 + -iste-ist entry 1