What I find compelling about cities and government in general is just a question of velocity. Change happens so slowly. So how can we actually speed up the change?

All these ideas have been repressed and never saw the light of day, because the mechanisms to raise the money, design the products, distribute the products, and market the products were never there. But now they are.

Detroit was the Silicon Valley of 50 years ago. It was the center of innovation. How do you get the people who left Detroit to come back here? It really is all about talent.

For innovation, entrepreneurship, start-ups, the U.S. continues to be unparalleled. But in spreading economic benefits broadly throughout the economy, we have not done well the last 30 years.

It makes no sense to educate people with advanced degrees and then ask them to leave and start up companies elsewhere. Why aren't we stapling a green card to their graduate diploma?