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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below. I am Eric Ries.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany.

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! and the founder of eBay and many others. And what of our most revered tech founder — Steve Jobs? Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa.