Dear all,
My apologies for sending this issue on Thursday rather than Wednesday, I’ve had quite a lot on my plate these past few days. I got back from my trip to the Bay Area and then had to travel to Paris to participate in the GovTech Summit, organized by our friends at PUBLIC, an investment firm dedicated to harnessing the support of entrepreneurs to transform public services (hi Daniel Korski and Alex de Carvalho!).
My contribution to the event was on a panel about the future of the welfare state, along with Tanya Filer of Cambridge University, Reuben Saxon, the founder of FreeUp (a startup, still in stealth mode, that aims at toppling payday loans), Dagur Eggertsson, the mayor of Reykjavik (Iceland), and Paul Duan of Bayes Impact. I’ll share my thoughts on GovTech soon in a Forbes article! In the meantime, here are a few more reflections from my recent trip to the US.
My stay in the Bay Area
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