You're dropped into rural America. A town of 5,000 people, one Walmart, no jobs. How do you build an economy there?
You don't build an economy there—you build the platform for them to build their own economy, because today is brutal but the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
In 1999, I sat in my apartment in Hangzhou with 17 friends. We pooled $60,000. Not one of us knew how to code. But we understood something: China's small manufacturers were invisible to the world. They made incredible products, but they cou...