#99 Innovation Chat: Rebecca Fannin + Justin Kosmides - A Few Things - 33 Min

We discussed a few things including:1. Rebecca and Justin's entrepreneurial journeys2. The #tech and #startup #ecosystem worldwide3. The state of the entrepreneurial community in the midwest4. Challenges and opportunities ahead5. Future trendsRebecca is a CNBC contributor, author of a newly published book Silicon Heartland, and a media entrepreneur.Her research and writing about Asia’s entrepreneurial boom led to three prior books that have been published in multiple languages: Silicon Dragon (2008), Startup Asia (2011), and Tech Titans of China (2019).A guest on BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and a quoted expert in the New York Times, she also has spoken at the Brookings Institution, Asia Society, and many universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Oxford.Rebecca has written for several publications including Red Herring, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, and was an international editor at Ad Age and Multichannel News.In addition to her features and special reports for CNBC, she also contributes to thought leadership papers published by major firms.In 2010, inspired by the many entrepreneurs she interviewed in emerging hotspots, she launched Silicon Dragon Ventures as a media platform covering tech innovation and venture capital frontiers and hosting events globally, including in China, Israel and the U.K. as well as Silicon Valleys in the U.S.Her new book, Silicon Heartland, brings Rebecca back to her homeland to explore the region’s comeback from the Rust Belt as a Tech Belt ─ and to discover the roots of her own journey.-----Justin was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. After a decade in the investment banking industry, I decided to pursue my passion for biking and tap into the changing world of mobility and electrical vehicles.Starting and scaling a brand during covid brought a long list of challenges but all of those have resulted in a resilient brand. #podcast#AFewThingsPodcast