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. Show notes00:00 Intro01:33 Can you travel over Zoom?03:11 What's been on global entrepreneurs' minds?05:51 How technology unleashed talent08:01 Silicon Valley isn't exactly irrelevant, just less central10:23 Why it made sense for so long for Silicon Valley to be ethnocentric15:24 You have to find wonder in being wrong18:41 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 of39:32 The skills required to succeed in this world45:03 OutroSubscribe to Chris’s newsletter on Substack. Follow him on LinkedIn? “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.

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