{EXTENDED} Big Tech & The Global Entrepreneurial Revolution with Renowned American Investor, Chris Schroeder

“It can be fun to pick on big tech, corporations make big mistakes & they should be held accountable. But we cannot underestimate what big tech has unleashed” – Chris Schroeder

👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:

- What it takes to shift from being an intrapreneur to entrepreneur

- How entrepreneurship has become a global lingua franca

- Startups thriving across the world and yet a growing digital divide

- The challenge of big tech and increasing monopoly, can markets self-correct?

- Landscape of innovation in different regions: the rise of superapps

⏳ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

02:49 - Chris' personal chapters as founder to funder & actualizing multiple visions

04:49 - Are entrepreneurs born or made?

06:16 - Shifting from intrapreneur to entrepreneur

12:06 - The lens of a venture capitalist and the lingua franca of entrepreneurship

17:06 - The Venn diagram between impact and profit closing in on each other

18:39 - The role of government and entrepreneurship, big tech

25:33 - Copycat models or real innovation?

27:50 - Chris' interest in Middle East and the startup revolution in the region

31:33 - Chris' advice for founders

34:34 - Post show discussion with VCs+wider audience

About Chris (Christopher Schroeder)

Chris is the co-founder of Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital (VC) fund focused on the next billion digital consumers across global emerging markets and is also a Network Partner for Village Global, an early VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Blakely, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman et al. Chris started in politics with the George W Bush (Senior) presidential campaign before becoming the CEO of the Washington Post/ Newsweek interactive. He then co-founded Health Central which was backed by the likes of Sequoia, Polaris Ventures and the Carlyle Group and was acquired by Remedy Health in 2012. In 2013, Chris published the first book on the Middle East & North Africa’s entrepreneurship scene called: Startup Rising — The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East — with a forward by renowned investor Marc Andreessen.