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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The poem on the Statue of Liberty was a symbol of hope for a better life for European immigrants arriving in New York: ‘ Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. I explained it to Washington State, because that was ground zero of the United States at the time until it was New York. We saw that in New York, for example, very connected to Italy and a lot of cases very early on. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star. billion people?