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Half a Billion Dollars, One Zip Code, and a Bet That Talent Is Everywhere
Atento Capital deployed more than $500 million from a single Oklahoma foundation - and started flying Latin American deep-tech founders to Tulsa to prove the next big company doesn't have to come from California.
Scott Shane
Scott Andrew Shane is one of the most cited entrepreneurship scholars alive, holding the A. Malachi Mixon III Professorship at Case Western Reserve University while simultaneously running Comeback Capital, a pre-seed VC fund backing Heartland startups, and advising Right Side Capital Management. He has written or edited 16 books, published over 94 scholarly articles, won the 2009 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, and manages a personal angel portfolio of 50+ companies - all while arguing, with data, that most things people believe about entrepreneurship are wrong.