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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. At Bird, we have built in massive programs to reduce theft, including integration with law enforcement. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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Not least of which because my father immigrated to the US in the 1960’s for his residency program of medical school. When he had finished the program the US wanted more doctors due to the Vietnam War. My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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In America being in this type of job means that you get 2 (maybe 3) weeks of vacation per year. I got my firm to pay for 50% of my MBA and I did the international program at the University of Chicago. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open.

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How Tech People Can Make a Difference in the Lives of Under-Privileged Children

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I’d like to start by asking each of you to consider helping under-privileged children in America get a little bit more than they have today. But even more valuable if you don’t have much money to give is to give your creativity or your programming time. Sure, you can give a small amount of money. Small or large.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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And of course many of you know this is near and dear to me because my own father is from Medellín, Colombia so I grew up in a household with the music, food, culture and language of South America. Example of these collaboration include Enchufe TV, the largest Spanish-language sketch company channel on YouTube. Why Double Down on YouTube.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data.

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