Kleiner Perkins, a Menlo Park based private equity underwriter (PEU), wants to change the face of healthcare and medicine. The firm recently invested in New Limit (longevity) and Open Evidence (medical research AI).
Kleiner Perkins Senior Partner Al Gore (former Blue Team Vice President) said the following twelve years ago:
“Our democracy has been hacked. The operating system has been taken over.” That was the message former Vice President Al Gore brought to Stanford Tuesday night. In a far-reaching, impassioned call to civic and environmental action, Gore railed against a political system that fails to serve the majority’s interest when it comes to climate change and other pressing issues.
...elected officials are “beholden” to wealthy corporations in order to campaign effectively via expensive television ads. Television air time dominated by special interests and news media that “do not inform people about serious issues”Gore and his PEU peers enjoy their preferred "carried interest" taxation to this day.
There is no AI for how billionaires PEUs avoided taxes, achieved public subsidies, crafted legislation, acquired additional assets, borrowed against them, charged management fees, deal fees, siphoned off special dividends/distributions, employed significant leverage (debt) and kept their byzantine fee arrangements secret. And I expect there never will be.
The future of PEU healthcare is Blood and Gore.
Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
Note: Any physical or evil managerial similarity between the "live forever" TechGods and Superman arch villian Lex Luthor is for the reader to appreciate or decide otherwise.
Gore, gore, gore....how do you like it? How do you like it?
