What if we've been thinking about innovation all wrong?
For more than forty years, Rohit Shukla has worked quietly behind the scenes with entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, universities, governments, and global institutions to help turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Along the way, he's helped thousands of innovators. Yet his greatest insight may be that innovation isn't about startups or venture capital at all—it's about building resilient systems and connecting the people, institutions, and ideas that too often exist in isolation.
In what became one of the longest conversations in the history of Entrepreneurial Thinkers, Rohit and I explore why the world doesn't simply need more entrepreneurs—we need more entrepreneurial thinkers across every sector of society. We discuss the "missing middle" that helps transformative ideas reach the people who need them most, why resilience may be the defining challenge of our generation, how Los Angeles could become one of the world's great laboratories for innovation, and why solving tomorrow's biggest problems will require us to think beyond silos and toward ecosystems. This is a masterclass in how remarkable societies—and remarkable leaders—learn to imagine, build, and evolve together.
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Website: https://larta.org/directors-cpt/rohit-shukla/
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