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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business Review

Or child care, elder care, psychological services, rehabilitation, or meeting space for community groups? Shouldn’t the next autonomous truck company be cofounded by technologists and truck drivers? Shouldn’t next-generation autonomous farms be cofounded by technologists and farmers?

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. If the group had had an idea for a smartphone app, they would have been off to the races, but there was little interest in hard technology like theirs.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, because tech roles have seemed inaccessible to those without a technical degree, the sector’s high-paying jobs have been assumed to exacerbate social divides, not narrow them. And there are other models worth exploring to improve racial inclusion in high-tech entrepreneurship and within the tech industry.