No place in the world is like Silicon Valley

Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator, shares insightful experiences and lessons learned over three decades in Silicon Valley. He talks passionately about his interest in education technology and why Y Combinator invests in startups at their earliest stages.

• Accelerators have helped reduce information asymmetry and level the playing ground for entrepreneurs
• Technology will be at the center of value creation
• Silicon Valley’s culture of tolerating extraordinary failures makes it irreplaceable
• The proliferation of innovation must provide solutions to world most important problems like climate change
• Non-profit: Second Harvest Food Bank, AmeriCares