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Bringing Silicon Valley to a Town Near You

Entrepreneurs come in all shapes, sizes and cities. There’s no reason they have to move to California to disrupt the world.

by Kevin Maney Jun 16, 2017 4 minutes
Phil Libin speaks at the 16th Nikkei Global Management Forum in Tokyo, Japan, on November 11, 2014.
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A crappy cup of airplane tea and the rise of Donald Trump led to the launch in May of an outfit with the wacky name of All Turtles, which might usher in a new way to think about tech startups around the world.

The All Turtles story began with Phil Libin, who used to be CEO of the app company Evernote and lately has worked as a partner at the venture capital firm General Catalyst in Silicon Valley. Last fall, Libin boarded a JetBlue flight from Boston to San Francisco. As the plane leveled off, he ordered tea. Libin plopped the tea bag in the hot water, then got distracted for about 10 minutes. By then, the tea was over-steeped, and he had the classic problem

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