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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Life Beyond Code

I went to BYU (Brigham Young University) at Hawaii. For example, a woman from Mongolia wanted to start a cashmere company and had won the competition a couple years earlier. BYU-Hawaii worked closely with me to help create the business model and put mentors in place. I’ve a very stupid person.

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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

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. Mongolia, which I think had a law about requiring them. Eric Ries : What kind of evidence were you looking at? Eric Ries : Yeah.