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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

Dmitri Trenin, “ A Five-Year Outlook for Russian Foreign Policy: Demands, Drivers, and Influences ” Carnegie Moscow Center , 2016. Weiss, “ New Tools, Old Tricks: Emerging Technologies and Russia’s Global Tool Kit ” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2021. North Korea/Iran/Non-Nation States. Orbis, 2020.

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

When he heard that Kublai was just printing his own money, he saw his path to riches and summoned the Ambassador from Kublai’s court, demanding to see the new paper currency. He demanded that everyone accept these new notes as currency. So smitten with this idea, Awesome copied the idea and printed his own money.

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Watch Out for Seven Traits Of A Dominant Visionary

YoungUpstarts

Demanding work environments and brilliant CEOs go hand in hand. Hard-core leaders on a mission are compelled to achieve their goal and demand the highest level of performance. Elon Musk and Steve Jobs among others are famous for handing out monumental demands peppered with ferocious criticism if performance was not to their liking.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

Growing Globally Has Never Been Easier. The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. For this is the age of the global entrepreneur. Luckily for all of us, their time has past.