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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. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I know it sounds trite to say that entrepreneurs are risk takers so let me describe the normal, rational person who I meet on a regular basis. He wanted to raise angel money.

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

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My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. Immigration and multiculturalism were always top of mind in my household.

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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. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

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As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

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Still, I’m proud to live in America. My dad’s from South America if you’re interested. He left in his early twenties to come to America for his med-school residency. He traveled throughout South America on a donkey selling tools and cutlery until he met my grandmother in Columbia. I understand that.

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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

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His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. That’s an amazing statistic and reminded me of my family’s journey. My dad was an immigrant from Colombia. He moved to the US for medical school, the first in his family to ever do this. My grandfather.

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