Venture capitalist Chris Schroeder travels the world to invest in emerging markets. To the entrepreneurs he meets, Silicon Valley is just one of many models, China is everywhere and South-to-South exchanges are constant. To succeed in this distributed world takes humility, agility and a certain comfort with the uncomfortable. 

00:00 Intro

01:33 Can you travel over Zoom?

03:11 What's been on global entrepreneurs' minds?

05:51 How technology unleashed talent

08:01 Silicon Valley isn't exactly irrelevant, just less central

10:23 Why it made sense for so long for Silicon Valley to be ethnocentric

15:24 You have to find wonder in being wrong

18:41 America is back. But back to what?

26:48 A return to sovereign industries, or the balkanization of the economy?

32:09 Capitalism, democracy and the mind models we can't let go of

39:32 The skills required to succeed in this world

45:03 Outro

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👀 “America is back!” But to what? by Chris Schroeder. The International Economy. 2021.

📚 Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World. Snigdha Poonam. Harvard University Press. 2018.