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Jared Polis: “Techstars was initially not thought of as a scalable…”

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Published | Video Starts at 08:12

We didn't have capital, right? We had maybe between us, I think $5,000 or something. So like what can you do? We … Techstars was initially not thought of as a scalable concept. … accounts, if you will, Unix based, this is before graphical, World Wide Web. There was something called Links, which was an interface. But generally speaking you had to be somewhat familiar with Unix. (08:12–08:14)

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Asserts that Techstars was originally intended to be a local initiative in Boulder, not a scalable model.

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