North Bay NEXT: Eric Ries on civic engagement — 'I travel the world over and people would kill for the combination of resources we have here'

Eric closes the fifth annual North Bay NEXT (350+ founders, investors, operators in Marin/Sonoma) in conversation with Semafor's Reed Albergotti — three weeks before Incorruptible's public release. MSIV founder Zachary Kushel's post-event recap surfaces Eric's challenge to the region's civic engagement.

“I travel the world over and people would kill for the combination of resources that we have here [in the North Bay]... [yet] the level of civic engagement and … idea that we should want to leave this place bigger, more inclusive, more of an economic engine than where we inherited it, I don't encounter that a lot … [and] that's a shame.” — Eric Ries, quoted by Zachary Kushel on LinkedIn