My guest today is Natalie Novick, a sociologist and quantitative social scientist working on research to understand the social aspects of a startup community.

For the past five years, she has been conducting fieldwork with entrepreneurs and community builders, starting in Santiago, Chile in 2015. Since then, she has lived and worked in 27 different countries and experienced the startup community firsthand.

In this conversation we discuss the global startup ecosystem, startup visas, working with early-stage founders, the role of government in innovation, and much, much more.

Having worked with thousands of entrepreneurs, the European Comission, national governments like Startup Estonia and organizations like Tech.eu and Startup Boost, Natalie has a VERY unique perspective on the European technology so I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.