We All Need a Lone Star State

Today: A contrarian view on the function that Texas has performed in the US history of innovation.

Credit: Pete Alexopoulos

The Agenda 👇

• You’ve all read about Texas recently

• Texas was long a frontier state

• Then it turned into a petrostate—and a Republican stronghold

• Then something changed recently

• What’s the equivalent of Texas in Europe?

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