J-Cal: USA Must Restore the Venture Flywheel 🇺🇸💰
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Brief Summary
Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial ecosystem thrives on successful company diasporas and unique philanthropic practices.
Key points
- The Silicon Valley Flywheel. Silicon Valley's ecosystem thrives as companies create new opportunities and investments.
Transcript
Japan, Australia, Singapore, etc. They all want to recreate what we have here. Well, what we've created here in Silicon Valley and in America is these diasporas that start when a company like Google goes public and then those people go create Facebook or go work at Facebook like Cheryl Samberg did and they accelerate the growth there and then those people become angel investors. They become LPs. This incredible flywheel was cooking. I mean, it was so smooth and now we've literally stuck a stick in it. On top of that, when these people die, most of them gave all their money away to foundation, which is something very different between the US and Europe. In America, these people
build companies, create new companies, invest in new companies, coach new companies, mentor new companies. And when they die, all that money goes to foundations that continue to promote and do some of the work that governments would do. And finally, how great is it that some foundations are competing with the government to decide what needs to be
