The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Insight
Feld: Governments and universities must participate in startup networks, not control them
“Often, and especially, you know, in different parts of the economic cycle, you have top-down focus, and you have government start to try to organize what's going on in the startup community, or you have academia or university in the city try to become the cent…”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:34 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Replicating Silicon Valley is the wrong goal for other cities
“The notion of trying to create the next Silicon Valley is, is completely the wrong question. And it's a wrong question for lots of reasons. But most importantly, each different geographic region, any city in the world, has different natural resources.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:11 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Top-down government efforts without bottom-up entrepreneurship produce stagnation
“When you have top-down in the absence of bottom-up entrepreneur, you know, entrepreneur-led phenomena, grassroots, whatever phrase you want to use, nothing really happens. You get this stagnation.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:02 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Every city on Earth originally formed as a startup
“Every single city on the planet was once a start-up.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:25 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Complex value chains create stronger local startup advantages
“It's, the more complex the value chain is between the end customer and the supplier of the product or the manufacture of the product. And the more complex that is, the bigger the local advantage.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:50 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.