Have Entrepreneurs Lost The Will

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Have Entrepreneurs Lost The Will To Innovate Debate?

On Friday 9th May, 2014, entrepreneurs and business leaders gathered in San Francisco to discuss whether entrepreneurs have lost the will to innovate, in the second ever live streamed debate for the Virgin Disruptors series.

Virgin Unite CEO Jean Oelwang opened the discussion, which was held at The NWBLK in San Francisco CA. On the panel, Richard Branson was joined by Google [X]’s Megan Smith, Tony Fadell of Nest, Samasource CEO Leila Janah and Jim Grubb of Cisco. The debate was moderated by the one and only online guru Guy Kawasaki (Chief Evangelist of Canva). The event touched on such topics as global regulation, patent reform, gender equality, social entrepreneurship and the future of innovation. True to form, tie-loathing entrepreneur Richard Branson ended the event by taking a pair of scissors to Jim Grubb’s tie.

The series of Virgin Disruptors events will see key cultural tensions debated online and offline, with each conversation culminating in a live debate streamed exclusively via the Google+ Hangout platform.

Virgin Disruptors will look to give everyone, no matter what side of the argument they are a real voice.

The debate was live streamed with Google+ Hangout (google.com/+virgin). Questions were sourced and streamed live via Google+.

To watch the event in its entirety, visit Virgin.com/Disru

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