A Conversation on Talent

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, noon

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In this episode, Shruti speaks with Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross about their new book, \\u201cTalent: How To Identify Energizers, Creatives and Winners Around the World.\\u201d They discuss how to identify and attract talent, competition vs. cooperation, the necessity of failure and resilience, effects of immigration on talent and much more. Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is co-author of the popular economics blog\\xa0Marginal Revolution\\xa0and co-founder of the online educational platform\\xa0Marginal Revolution University. Gross is a start-up investor in technology businesses including Uber, Instacart, Coinbase, GitHub and SpaceX. He co-founded Pioneer, a quantitative start-up accelerator, and was a partner at Y-Combinator and started its AI program.

This conversation is also being released as a bonus episode of Cowen\\u2019s biweekly podcast, Conversations with Tyler.

Recorded June 29th, 2022

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