Discovering The New Builders: Exploring the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in America
In the summer of 2019, Seth Levine, a venture capitalist, and Elizabeth MacBride, a business journalist – set out to tell the stories of entrepreneurs beyond the high-tech enclaves of Silicon Valley and New York and culminated in their new book The New Builders.Join us in conversation with Seth, Elizabeth and Malia Lazu. We’ll learn about the community Seth and Elizabeth discovered– an army of New Builders – who are on a mission to create a better future. We’ll explore the next generation of American business and entrepreneurship.
Hosted by the Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship.
Featured Speakers
Fiona E. Murray
Associate Dean for Innovation
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the Faculty Director of The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship and an…
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Malia C Lazu
Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Malia Lazu is a Lecturer in the TIES Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Malia Lazu, an award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion has sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship for over…
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Seth Levine
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Foundry Group
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Elizabeth MacBride
Journalist; Founder of the Times of Entrepreneurship
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