Debate Club: Is Silicon Valley Still the Center of Global Innovation?
Debate Club • 24m
Innovation consultant Bill O'Connor and Alex Lazarow, author of the book Out-Innovate, go head-to-head on the issue of whether innovation is being de-centralized among several regions across the world or if Silicon Valley is still the only place to be for entrepreneurs in tech and other industries. Alex argues that innovators should seek to build "camels" instead of unicorns, but Bill has argues that the "spirit of the llama" lives only in the San Francisco Bay Area. Whose animal metaphor will win out?
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