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John Wylie is betting venture capital’s business model must change

The veteran investor wants to marry Australia’s world-class intellectual property with our world-class retirement system.

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John Wylie’s latest venture capital bet isn’t on a plucky start-up, but on the future of the sector itself.

Wylie argues the sector’s traditional model of throwing capital at a market opportunity in order to try to establish a stranglehold on that market has run its course – backing good ideas that are light real intellectual property will only get you so far.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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