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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

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They are using Singapore as their model of economic development. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. I want to put a pin in Singapore and come back to it. So there are multiple parts to the Singapore system as you and I have discussed before. Bill Gurley : Great.