After the talk, I had a lot of time to meditate about this on the train back home.
Yes, I think it'll happen, but it won't look anything like the valley.
When I was aiming at a finance job, I had two recruiters from two separate banks tell me one of the qualities they look for is an entrepreneurial spirit. Of course, they want you to be entrepreneurial with other peoples money and forfeit the reward to your employer. This is the attitude that creates a city overflowing with smart, ambitious, miserable people. Thats a powderkeg ready to be lit.
They key will be getting the financial services industry on board. If there was an incubator run by Goldman Sachs, kids at NYU and Columbia would start talking about startups like the kids at Stanfard do.
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After the talk, I had a lot of time to meditate about this on the train back home.
Yes, I think it'll happen, but it won't look anything like the valley.
When I was aiming at a finance job, I had two recruiters from two separate banks tell me one of the qualities they look for is an entrepreneurial spirit. Of course, they want you to be entrepreneurial with other peoples money and forfeit the reward to your employer. This is the attitude that creates a city overflowing with smart, ambitious, miserable people. Thats a powderkeg ready to be lit.
They key will be getting the financial services industry on board. If there was an incubator run by Goldman Sachs, kids at NYU and Columbia would start talking about startups like the kids at Stanfard do.
The kids behind Diaspora are NYU students. There is a lot of people working on startups in NYC.
https://joindiaspora.com/