Silicon Valley is both an unassuming region of Northern California and a generational symbol of entrepreneurial progress and global success. Natasha Munasinghe had a recent brush with some Valley alumni and came away inspired.
It's not often that your mind gets shattered open with confronting and very challenging possibilities – this was one of those times. It was at an event I recently attended called Silicon Valley Comes to Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, in the wake of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Jawed Karim, a co-founder of Youtube, Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn, Naval Ravikant who founded Angel list and is an investor in Twitter, Jonas Kjellberg former Marketing Director at Skype, as well as Jeff Hoffman CEO of Priceline, were just some of the mega personalities that attended.read more