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The best investors are learners rather than teachers. Micro venture capitalist Chris Sacca
is one of Silicon
Valley's most thoughtful learners - a former lawyer and failed
entrepreneur, once Head of Special Initiatives at Google, an early
investor in Twitter with his own 1.3 million person following, a 2009 TechCrunch
Crunchie Award nomination for Best Angel Investor, an Obama insider and
activist, a keen bicyclist and skier, and the owner of the most colorful
collection of cowboy shirts in the Valley.I first met Chris a couple of years ago at the Silicon Valley Comes to
Oxford, an event in which
the best minds of the Valley educate Oxford students about technology
innovation and business creativity. What I liked about him then, as now,
was his pugnacious humility, his very vivid memories of failure and
poverty, his uniquely American optimism, and his unashamed commitment to
global social justice.
The Wall Street Journal cited Sacca as "possibly the most influential businessman in America". But what they forgot to add was that he's also amongst the most provocative businessman in this country - a perennial start-up guy who can cram more ideas into a five minute interview than most corporate execs can come up with in a lifetime.
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by Andrew Keen
Even for Silicon Valley, Andy
Kessler
is a sickeningly
accomplished guy. Moving out to San Francisco in 1993, Kessler
co-founded Velocity Capital where, between 1996 and 2001, he transformed
$100 million into $1 billion. Not satisfied with being filthy rich,
Kessler then went onto becoming famous - publishing four non-fiction
books between 2003 ad 2006, including his highly entertaining short
history of digital technology, the personal computer and the Internet: How We
Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer. And now Kessler has
just come out with his first published fiction, an irreverent novel
about artificial intelligence called Grumby which Michael Lewis
called "deliciously naughty".
So who better to talk about productivity, technology and investment than Kessler, a guy who knows better than most how we got to where we are in Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Main Street. In coming into our Techcrunch studios, Andy Kessler not only proved that he existed, but also confirmed that he has a highly controversial take on technological innovation, smart investment, job destruction and how entrepreneurs really create of wealth.
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Arts + Labs advisor Andrew Keen talks with Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer and author of You Are Not a Gadget, about the purpose, and potential problems, of life in an increasingly digital world.
Arts + Labs advisor Andrew Keen chats with Nicholas Carr about the Internet and it's impact on our minds.
The debate will be moderated by Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, PBS NewsHour, and the participants will include:
Andrew Keen, Arts + Labs advisor and author of "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture"
Farhad Manjoo, journalist for Slate, and author of "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society"
Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia
Micah L. Sifry, editor, Personal Democracy Forum
Speakers:
Brian Napack, President, Macmillan Publishing
Channing Dawson, SVP of Emerging Media, Scripps
Rick Cotton, EVP & General Counsel, NBCU
Jeff Turner, Founder & CTO, Interstream
C. Lincoln Hoewing, Vice President of Internet and Technology Policy, Verizon
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