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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). They are using Singapore as their model of economic development.

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

abovethecrowd.com

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 get my healthcare insurance through Vox Media, so I actually don’t know the cost of my healthcare, or the government-. I want to put a pin in Singapore and come back to it.