2. Something Ventured

Year: 2011
Starring: Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, and Po Bronson
Recommended by: Rich Lyons, dean of the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business

I recently saw Something Ventured by our alum, [producer] Paul Holland, which I really liked. It's about the history of the VC industry and Silicon Valley. As a documentary, it did a fine job of communicating what the founding actors of venture capital are really like. One gets the feeling that if this hadn't been captured like this today, it might never have been captured in this first-person way. Also, it's of personal significance since I grew up in the heart of the Silicon Valley. And while my family was not in the venture industry, several of my friends' families were. My early years corresponded

《冒險之事》（Something Ventured），2011年
主演：比爾·鮑斯（Bill Bowes）、赫伯特·博伊爾（Herbert Boyer）、珀·布朗森（Po Bronson）
推薦人：里奇·里昂斯（Rich Lyons），加州大學(xué)伯克利分校哈斯（Haas）商學(xué)院院長
推薦理由：這部影片講述了風(fēng)投業(yè)與硅谷的歷史。作為一部紀(jì)錄片，它很好地表達(dá)了風(fēng)險投資到底是怎么回事。