Juan Enriquez
Juan Enriquez
Juan Enríquez Cabot is a Mexican-American academic, businessman, and speaker. He is Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, and is a best-selling author...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionEducator
CountryMexico
years flags sitting
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
real people way
Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.
mean serious
We have to get serious about living within our means.
jobs venture reason-why
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.
soccer latin technology
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.
real math white
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.
jobs technology people
Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.
jobs fun urban-development
There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.
ecosystems looks biosphere
There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.
agree behind people society sure system understand
We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.