Alex is a global venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation, a global firm that invests across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. He is also the author of Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs - from Delhi to Detroit - Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley  Everything we think we know about startup best practices is rooted in a time and a place. It's Silicon Valley, in a time of abundance, for a very particular type of asset-light software-based startup that wants to grow extraordinarily fast. And yet around the world, some of the best entrepreneurs operate in ecosystems, that just looks different. They have less capital, less depth of trained startup human capital, or they may regularly face more macro-economic shocks. Yet, no one is telling their stories of how entrepreneurs have scaled startups in an ecosystem that looks different than what the valley is. In this episode, we go into who the frontier innovators are, why Silicon Valley should be learning from them, and the potential of these learnings when applied in our home markets.