Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The Ethereum community is grappling with its own governance roadmap, with an active debate currently underway on how to resolve issues of lost funds due to hacks or vulnerabilities in smart contracts. As the price of bitcoin rose to over $11,000 this morning (from lows near $6000 two weeks ago), governance was a key theme over the past week.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. Not in Europe or South Korea. How should we as entrepreneurs and as a community be acting? [00:52:12] If you’re okay with that, maybe we could do it.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. Those aren't major geographies for Khan Academy, but we do have users there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. What did South Korea do? His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author.

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