Marina Hadjipateras, the dashing American venture capitalist, has only one word of derision. She speaks it softly and rarely. Conservative. A family can be conservative. An investment, a choice. The way she uses the word, it’s never political. It’s also never a good thing.
The first time I hear Marina deploy her tender curse is during lunch with her brother Alex on the harborside deck of Zephyros, a seafood restaurant in the fifth-century-BCE port city of Piraeus, near Athens. Sophisticated—God, they’re sophisticated, I keep thinking, dimly recalling a line from Fitzgerald. As platters arrive, I’m aware that I’ve never settled on a way to gracefully extract bones from fish.
Marina, a
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