Rottenberg: Startup ecosystems require mutual support and talent mobility, not zero-sum rivalry
Linda Rottenberg · What's the next Silicon Valley? (with Endeavor's Linda Rottenberg) · May 10, 2023 · at 21:31
Linda Rottenberg, co-founder and CEO of Endeavor, discusses how shifting founder attitudes away from zero-sum competition enables regional startup ecosystems to develop.
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“And this idea of supporting one another, the idea of sharing ideas, the idea that it was okay if you trained people and then other people hired them away, that's what creates an entrepreneurial ecosystem, right?”
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