Our Moral Board · Public-source moral portrait
Sebastian Mallaby
A guarded editorial portrait of the journalist and author whose The Power Law examines how venture capital’s appetite for extreme outcomes shapes innovation, founders, institutions, and inequality.
Mallaby’s account helps IoV distinguish high-variance capital allocation from broad value formation and ask who receives permission to experiment, who absorbs failure, and who captures outsized success.
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A public reading, not a measured identity.
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Given Identity
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Earned Identity
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Built a career as a journalist, columnist, policy researcher, and author of books on finance, central banking, development, and venture capital.
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Skills
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His public work demonstrates investigative reporting, interviewing, institutional history, financial analysis, and narrative synthesis.
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Rented Identity
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Public roles include journalist, author, columnist, and Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow; these roles do not define the whole person.
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Moral Compass
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Moses reads Mallaby’s attention to both venture capital’s discoveries and its blind spots as useful institutional candor, not as evidence about private character.
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Story
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Within the Gratitude Series, The Power Law reveals how a small number of extreme outcomes can organize capital, prestige, tolerance for failure, and the future of technology.
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Identity State
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Not assessed. Public reporting and authorship cannot establish a person’s present internal, relational, or wellbeing state.
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Consent and Disclosure
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No identity-workshop or publication consent was provided. This draft uses public sources for a limited editorial interpretation and makes no claim of endorsement or board participation.
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