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Henri Swan

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Fortune 500 leader, Startup guru, and serial entrepreneur, with management and technical expertise in digital, physical, and scientific products and services. Launched my first venture at 27, which became a multi-million business within 24 months.

While being a leader at various tier-one organizations, including Stanford, Accenture, and Google, he advised many Startup and Unicorns backed by Sequoia, Andreessen, Softbank, Google Ventures, and many others through their IPO or M&A exit; he executed the entire Innovation Cycle “idea through exit” ranging from $1m to over $10 Billion Innovation Initiatives at Fortune 500 companies. He is the inventor of the On-Demand Innovation Ventures Standard which is the prerequisite foundation of Impact Inv
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Henri Swan How, when and where Artificial Intelligence will evolve and its impact on the world economy. A brief research summary is posted on my websites.
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The book is a fair overview of the VC landscape for anyone not from Silicon Valley, unfortunately most founder focus too much on VC and miss the rest. As a reminder from someone who worked in all sides necessary for any startup success, here is few w ...more
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A book that you wish you read prior or during your high school or earlier college years. It is a must for anyone seeking to succeed in any part of life, personal, professional or leisure.

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It is simply, an awesome historic walkthrough of how road travel by car was and should be, vs the current industrialization of self transportation through short trip commuting and nearly none of the incentives that comes with it.

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“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done". - Two Nobel laureate Marie Curie

"Green tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century". by John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins, Venture Capital, and early backer of Google and Amazon. The largest donor to the newly launched Stanford University School of Sustainability.”
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“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done". - Two Nobel laureate Marie Curie

"Green tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century". by John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins, Venture Capital, and early backer of Google and Amazon. The largest donor to the newly launched Stanford University School of Sustainability.”
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