Impact Drivers
In this podcast, Jen Helms interviews entrepreneurs solving hard problems that matter. Through conversation we aim to inspire others to build businesses that do more than create incremental improvements. Instead, we demonstrate the path to building businesses solving the most pressing problems we face as a species. Whether it’s through innovative new technologies, products that move an industry forward, or process creation that flips the status quo on its head. Entrepreneurs with new approaches not only have the opportunity to push society forward in a positive way but also open up new market opportunities. Doing this, however, is hard. This podcast is a chance to be inspired and learn from those daring to build the hard businesses that create a better world. We call these entrepreneurs impact drivers.
Impact Drivers
Margaret O'Mara, Author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
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Season 1
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Episode 5
In this episode we hear from Margaret O'Mara, Author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
Margaret is a historian of modern America who writes and teaches about the history of the technology industry, American politics, and the connections between the two. She is the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is also an opinion writer for the New York Times.
In this episode, we talk about the history of Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship in the United States, how government has played a role in promoting innovation, the state of entrepreneurship today, and what history tells us about how to promote innovation going forward.