Big Tech & The Global Entrepreneurial Revolution with Chris Schroeder

This week, we went deep on the Global Entrepreneurial Revolution shaping our future with renowned American investor & entrepreneur, Christopher Schroeder.

From the dominance of big tech, to the digital divide to startups rising in the Middle East - we cover it all with Chris.

Chris is the co-founder of Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital (VC) fund focused on the next billion digital consumers across global emerging markets and is also a Network Partner for Village Global, an early VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Blakely, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman et al. Chris started in politics with the George W Bush (Senior) presidential campaign before becoming the CEO of the Washington Post/ Newsweek interactive. He then co-founded Health Central which was backed by the likes of Sequoia, Polaris Ventures and the Carlyle Group and was acquired by Remedy Health in 2012. In 2013, Chris published the first book on the Middle East & North Africa’s entrepreneurship scene called: Startup Rising — The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East — with a forward by renowned investor Marc Andreessen.

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👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:

- What it takes to shift from being an intrapreneur to entrepreneur

- How entrepreneurship has become a global lingua franca

- Startups thriving across the world and yet a growing digital divide

- The challenge of big tech and increasing monopoly, can markets self-correct?

- Landscape of innovation in different regions: the rise of superapps

⏳ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

02:49 - Chris' personal chapters as founder to funder & actualizing multiple visions

04:49 - Are entrepreneurs born or made?

06:16 - Shifting from intrapreneur to entrepreneur

12:06 - The lens of a venture capitalist and the lingua franca of entrepreneurship

17:06 - The Venn diagram between impact and profit closing in on each other

18:39 - The role of government and entrepreneurship, big tech

25:33 - Copycat models or real innovation?

27:50 - Chris' interest in Middle East and the startup revolution in the region

31:33 - Chris' advice for founders

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