Memorable Quotes:
“I’ve come to believe that every city with at least a hundred thousand people needs a startup community to be vibrant and healthy longterm.” – Brad Feld
“When the pandemic ends we’ll be in that place where remote will be the default and the office will be the option.” – Jerry Colonna
“Is the way that offices and commercial offices have existed for the past period of time been effective?” – Brad Feld
“Are we at another transitional moment in civilization that causes a very, very broad rethink of a bunch of structural systems?” – Brad Feld
“The definition of startup community starts to be more virtual…what’s happened is that the notion of community starts to include people outside your own company in a more sustained way.” – Jerry Colonna
“There are lots of things that will come out of the experience we’re having as a species right now, but I’m very hopeful that many people will reevaluate their cultural norm and their assumptions about how things have to work, which is extraordinarily uncomfortable.” – Brad Feld
“What can we do as people working in entrepreneurial companies to change those conditions in a way that better serves the people in those companies?” – Brad Feld
“Are you willing to examine the underlying worldview and mental models in your community, are you willing to look at those underlying mental models and the ways those mental models have unconsciously supported you in order to effectuate the change that you say you want to make? – Jerry Colonna
“How have I been complicit in maintaining the systems of oppression that I say I don’t want and more importantly, what am I willing to give up that I love in order to have the world that I want to have come to pass?” – Jerry Colonna
“There will be things that happen where the playbook doesn’t work and that’s not how a complex system works.” – Brad Feld
“Maybe, in the end, belonging is a core component of the startup community.” – Jerry Colonna
