Some of them now qualify for the Order of Celebrityhood. (Not much more can be said of CEOs who pass off their ghost-written banalities in bookstores everywhere.) Is this noise really contributing to a base of public knowledge and reflection that makes for better and richer societies?

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For one prominent New York venture capital firm, part of tapping that knowledge base means working the front lines of social change and public policy.

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