Juan Andrés Fontaine: Chile as a National Startup

And then again, this time I've been called to serve in the government with a clear mandate to help draw policies that would increase productivity and get Chile to become a developed country during this decade. That's a mission President Pinera has set for us. So this is very challenging. You may being we are different generations, of course, and some of you may think as a bit distant, this idea or this love for public policies, you are more private oriented people. In my generations, we used to think that in order to change the world, you had to make a revolution. Some people around here were basically wearing flowers in their heads and trying to make the revolution through peace and love. Others around the world were doing less peaceful things to change the world. And all those experience fail actually. But we get very moved as a generation for finding ways of, through public policy, changing the world. And I have had the fortune of doing that in a sense in Chile, of participating in this creation of a new way of managing Chile. It's sort of a startup for the nation which has the orientation of actually widening the room for people to innovate. So instead of changing the world through revolution, to change the world through innovation, which is what you see here in Silicon Valley, very easy.