My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

Episode 124

Designing Innovative Ecosystems

Designing Innovative Ecosystems with Victor Hwang

Hosted by: Bill Ringle Released: April 11, 2016 Duration: 00:39:00

Episode Summary

Victor Hwang talks to Bill Ringle about Silicon Valley, breakthrough technologies, and the nature of the innovative ecosystem.

CEO/Co-Founder of T2 Venture Capital

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Listen to this interview to learn

  • Why some places thrive and others struggle with comparable levels of the talent pool and opportunity.
  • What is a trust network and why it matters.
  • The surprising key to an innovative ecosystem
  • A simple belief to cultivate that makes an ecosystem sustainable

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Expert Bio

Victor Hwang is CEO, co-founder and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm that builds startup companies and the ecosystems that grow them. T2VC mentors and invests in innovative companies with breakthrough technologies. But unlike any other firm of its kind, T2VC also leverages the practical knowhow of company-building to design innovation ecosystems around the world. This expertise includes capital formation, innovation policy, and entrepreneurial development for partners such as the World Bank, USAID, and numerous governments and corporations.

Victor graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. with Honors, studying Government plus additional studies in Computer Science, Computer Architecture, and Operating Systems Design. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Chicago with a J.D. He was appointed as a Law Clerk in the General Counsel’s office of the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1997 and served in national politics from 1995 to 1997.

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For more information, visit Victor’s website.

Contact Info for Victor Hwang

Web address: Innovation Rainforest

Travels From: Silicon Valley, CA

Authored by Victor Hwang

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