Embracing a New Startup Boom Beyond Silicon Valley

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America has shifted from a period where giant firms dominated the economy to a new startup boom where entrepreneurs are emerging beyond Silicon Valley. One example is June Mendoza who bartered a portrait for a bottle of cough syrup and a fur coat, capturing both famous and unknown individuals in her images.

There has been a slow strangling of freedom in the territory where pro-democracy activists have been convicted; an annual vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing in 1989 has been replaced by a food fair. A boom in startups suggests America is recovering its pioneering spirit (8:06). And remembering June Mendoza, portrait painter to the royals, and the less well-known (16:28).

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