When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build … - Juan Enriquez

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What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

Juan Enriquez

When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful. " And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

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We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

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China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.

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One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U. S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.

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Venture capital is about. 02% of the U. S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U. S. jobs and 21% of U. S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.

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If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1
5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

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