Cardmunch founder Bowei Gai quit his cushy job with LinkedIn two months ago. He sold his business to LinkedIn in 2011, and is only now jumping ship to travel the world and find the next Silicon Valley, along with the help of Valley heavy-weights Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Brad Feld of the Foundry Group.
“I don’t know whether he’s the advance scout for us or we’re the advance scout for him,” said McClure in an interview with VentureBeat. “We’ve got our separately planned trips for Geeks on a Plane in India, Southeast Asia, and then we’re working on Africa. We’ll likely cross up.”
Gai’s new project, the World Startup Report, launched today — and it basically makes him the Jonny Quest of the startup world. Gai and a small team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs will travel to 29 different countries in the next nine months. There, they will assess the startups, founders, “big players,” the challenges locals face, and the culture of that region to create a report on what it’s like to start a company there.
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