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Michael Gibson on The Thiel Fellowship and The Future of Education and Innovation

New Frontier

CHAPTER

The Paper Belt: A History of San Francisco

The book is about the decline of San Francisco as an innovation hub. I think of a city that cuts the gets in the way of its own problems, which is very much kind of a paper belt. And even when I think about at the individual level, I see a kind of McKinsey vacation of tech where 10 years ago, if you were a prestigious graduate of Harvard, we wanted to make your parents proud.

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