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No place in the world is like Silicon Valley

2021/2/23
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The Sure Shot Entrepreneur

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Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator, shares insightful experiences and lessons learned over three decades in Silicon Valley. He talks passionately about his interest in education technology and why Y Combinator invests in startups at their earliest stages.

  • Accelerators have helped reduce information asymmetry and level the playing ground for entrepreneurs
  • Technology will be at the center of value creation
  • Silicon Valley’s culture of tolerating extraordinary failures makes it irreplaceable
  • The proliferation of innovation must provide solutions to world most important problems like climate change
  • Non-profit: Second Harvest Food Bank), AmeriCares)