Chokshi: Tech ecosystems require both government support and bottom-up entrepreneurship
Sonal Chokshi · a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything · Jan 2, 2019 · at 17:57
Sonal Chokshi, host of the a16z Podcast, discusses structural requirements for successful innovation hubs during a panel on London's tech ecosystem.
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“There's never been a really successful case of a top down government mandated or government created eco cluster. Nor has there been a completely purely successful bottoms up community where it's just a startup set of entrepreneurs who are very entrepreneurial and trying to build an innovation cluster.”
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