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“I will say that a lot of tension arose from Googler’s expectations that the company’s culture had to be exactly the same as what it was when the company was one fifth the size” Former GOOG & MSFT executive (and multiple time founder) Javier Soltero on Career Advice, Big Company Culture, and Startup Hiring Tips

Hunter Walker

On a personal level, the idea that I had started my first professional job in an industry and an area that I had been so passionate about since I was a kid growing up in Puerto Rico. I suspect a lot of people my age who entered the industry at that time and who were not from California felt similarly.

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

This event is free, and their conversation will be followed by a live Q&A for webcast attendees; register today to join them. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. I see exhaustive execution of Lean Startup methodology often in the mobile/internet space.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

But it does seem like the concerted effort from the executive branch and the legislative branch to send a signal, at least to our closest allies, our Five Eyes allies, that we need to have the same basic principles when it comes to future control of the internet and 5G internet technologies. And it requires some tough conversations.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

This conversation was recorded before the announcement of Ron's new position in the incoming Biden administration. In our conversation, I ask Ron point blank if the outcome we are living through was inevitable, or could we have avoided this catastrophe? Here's my conversation with Ron Klain. You're not going to like his answer.