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Cover of The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby

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The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby

Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.

Pages
496
Reading time
≈ 9 h
Checkpoints
20
Genre
Non-fiction
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How long does it take to read The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future?

At 496 pages, The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future is a fairly long book. Expect about 9 hours of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.

At 30 minutes a day, that is about 18 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 7 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).

Reading days to finish it
30 minutes a day18 days
Vread median pace (72 pp./day)7 days

Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.

Prove you read it

The Vread challenge: 20 checkpoints

  1. Checkpoint 1, page 25
  2. Checkpoint 2, page 50
  3. Checkpoint 3, page 74
  4. Checkpoint 4, page 99
  5. Checkpoint 5, page 124
  6. Checkpoint 6, page 149
  7. Checkpoint 7, page 174
  8. Checkpoint 8, page 198
  9. Checkpoint 9, page 223
  10. Checkpoint 10, page 248
  11. Checkpoint 11, page 273
  12. Checkpoint 12, page 298
  13. Checkpoint 13, page 322
  14. Checkpoint 14, page 347
  15. Checkpoint 15, page 372
  16. Checkpoint 16, page 397
  17. Checkpoint 17, page 422
  18. Checkpoint 18, page 446
  19. Checkpoint 19, page 471
  20. Checkpoint 20, page 496

In Vread, The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future is split into 20 checkpoints, one every 25 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.

The challenge: validate all 20 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.

Also available in French on Vread.

Illustrative example

Checkpoint 1/20pp. 1–25

What a checkpoint looks like

A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.

The answer is in the text: reply in the app.

This is not a question from The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.

Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.

Summary, quiz, reviews: frequently asked questions

How many pages is The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future?
The edition listed on Vread has 496 pages. The exact count varies by edition (paperback, hardback, ebook).
How long does it take to read The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future?
About 9 hours of reading, or 18 days at 30 minutes a day.
Is there a quiz on The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future?
Yes: the Vread app has 20 reading questions on The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, one per checkpoint, unlocked as you read.
Where can I find a summary of The Power Law : Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future?
Vread does not publish summaries: the app supports reading the book itself, part by part. Checkpoint questions cover what you have just read, which makes them a good way to check you did not miss anything.

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Written by Vread from its catalogue data (page count of the listed edition, checkpoints, ratings aggregated from 10 ratings). No summary or publisher text is reproduced. Reading times are estimates; see the method in the Vread Reading Barometer (in French).