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From the Other Side of the World`Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places
by Elmira Bayrasli
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AuthorElmira Bayrasli
PublisherHarperCollins
Synopsis"Why the next Steve Jobs is just as likely to come from Lagos, Lahore, Monterrey of Mumbai as from Silicon Valley.
In Istanbul, Turkey, Bülent Çelebi, an experienced engineer, struggles to find the right talent to roll out his cutting-edge wireless technology across his country as well as in Europe and the United States, where his company has expanded.
In Lagos, Nigeria, Tayo Oviosu, a former Silicon Valley executive, grapples with poor infrastructure to bring financial services to Nigeria and all Africans – and thereby jumpstart growth in Africa.
As CNN displays images of the latest bombing in Pakistan, Monis Rahman, a computer engineer, uses his Internet business to reframe the world’s perceptions of his people.
In Monterrey, Mexico, Enrique Gomez Junco, an entrepreneur running an energy-efficiency business, battles his country’s monopolies.
In Mumbai, Shaffi Mather, an activist, tries to tackle his country’s endemic corruption through a for-profit ambulance service.
Yana Yakovleva, the founder of a chemical company in Moscow, Russia, who had been unjustly jailed, stands up to the Kremlin and refuses to be defeated by her country’s weak rule of law.
In Beijing, China, Lei Jun, the so-called Steve Jobs of China, develops cutting-edge smartphones and software applications in an environment hungry to unleash Chinese innovation but resistant to social and political change.
All these entreprenuers have one thing in common – they built enterprises under impossible conditions. They changed what is possible economically in their own lands. Their efforts have thrown open the limits of what is possible anywhere. They have made prosperity multilingual. And the stories are multiplying. The next great innovator – the next Steve Jobs -- is out there somewhere.
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