If you go to Amazon.com and search for books about venture capital, you get 14,114 responses, which includes many text books. Andrew Metrick , a professor of finance at Wharton, has just written a new book on the subject — titled, Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation . Unlike the thousands of other books on the subject, though, this book offers a different approach, especially in areas such as valuing startup companies and IPOs, by bridging the gap between finance fundamentals and venture capital practice. Knowledge at Wharton spoke to him about his new book and also about hedge funds, which are in the news almost every day. If you have iTunes, you can subscribe with one click: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.eduhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/knowledge-wharton/id120724941 If you have your favorite podcast source, the url is: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcastcurrent.xml For your convenience you may play or download with the links under the title.…