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I was born in 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My parents came to the US from Taiwan, seeking a better life. They arrived in America with $300 and two laundry bags to hold their clothes. My parents were educators and to them, the most important gift they could give me was a good education. At the end of high school, I was fortunate enough to get into Harvard. So I started there in the fall of 1989. In a Hollywood movie, that might be the happy ending. But in my life, it was actually just the beginning of a journey. I didn’t realize how my good fortune would put a burden on my parents. They couldn’t afford to send me to Harvard, so they took out a second mortgage on their house. They could have lost everything. But it still wasn’t enough cash to pay for college. The only way they could fill the gap was to start a business. They weren’t natural entrepreneurs — they had tried before and it didn’t take off. But they had no other choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9e0656b3d1de64a274167f/1587437688169-82J8CA5M5S5GSKNS3IMB/gis14-innovation-san%2Bjose-don%2Bmirra-summit-commercial_140218_412.jpg Mission - Victor always remembered his parents starting their business. My parents spent countless hours learning how to start a business. Even just filing the forms required by the government was a challenge. I started to wonder, why does society make it so hard on my parents? The business was tough. It was exhausting. Sleepless nights. Tons of anxiety. But eventually it worked. During my first week at Harvard, I attended the introductory Economics class, where they talked about the machinery of the macro economy. But after one class, I left that class and never came back. The reason? Because I knew what they were saying was missing something important. It didn’t account for everyday people, just like my parents, all over the world, trying to make something of themselves. Who spend hours figuring out forms in the library. Who take out a second mortgage. Who can’t afford even a first mortgage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9e0656b3d1de64a274167f/1587441182668-37Z9QZOJF59S2EP5XFPB/IMG_9860.jpg Mission - Victor’s life’s journey flowed from that day. Since then, I have spent my life learning and discovering new ways to think about economies and economic growth. I have searched for the answer to the question, “How can we create prosperity by taking into account the ‘little person’? How do we remove the barriers holding them back?” I want a world that doesn’t ignore everyday people, like my parents, and doesn't stand in their way. That’s what I’m fighting for. Because the barriers that hold back everyday people, don't just hold them back. They hold back the rest of us, and the rest of the world too. https://www.victorh.co/bio daily 0.75 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9e0656b3d1de64a274167f/1588138802019-MVD3HAWUULMB2SL9VWVZ/DSC_4325*.jpg Bio - Victor is an economic growth expert. His ideas have shaped the economic lives of millions of people worldwide. His work has helped over 300 communities, cities, states, companies, and even entire countries in creating greater economic prosperity. His economic development clients have included the World Bank, Ford Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has also worked with corporate clients seeking to grow entrepreneurial innovation, including Accenture, IBM, and Microsoft. He is founder and CEO of Victor & Company, an economic growth consultancy. He is founder and CEO of Right to Start, a campaign fighting to expand entrepreneurial opportunity for all. Right to Start seeks to level the playing field by lifting the voices of everyday entrepreneurs, grassroots mobilizing and organizing, and engaging with policymakers at all levels. Previously, he was Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s leading philanthropy supporting entrepreneurs with an endowment of $2 billion. At Kauffman, he led initiatives that impacted over 200,000 entrepreneurs, including efforts in catalyzing capital formation, transforming economic development practices, launching a national policy roadmap, and breaking barriers for underserved entrepreneurs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9e0656b3d1de64a274167f/1587438447801-NERRGKGW2ZGWRCSGXFYB/Screen+Shot+2020-01-09+at+10.35.22+PM.png Bio Victor has created two leading conferences on unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship: Global Innovation Summit and ESHIP Summit. The Global Innovation Summit became Silicon Valley’s leading conference on building innovative economies, with over 1,000 delegates from 50 nations. The ESHIP Summit, during Victor’s term at the Kauffman Foundation, became the nation’s leading conference on building entrepreneurial communities, with over 1,200 attendees from all 50 states and over 100 mayors and key staff. Victor was co-founder and CEO of the startup Liquidity, a Silicon Valley venture-backed firm making safe drinking water filtration based on nanotech manufacturing. He led the company through product launch, early revenues, and winning the TechCrunch Disrupt startup competition. He was CEO and co-founder of T2 Venture Creation, a venture firm that built startup companies and designed ecosystems that fostered entrepreneurial innovation in dozens of countries and cities. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of Larta Institute, an organization commercializing technology from key government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He was chief strategy officer of Veatros, a video startup where he led the company’s acquisition by a public company. Victor practiced corporate and technology law with the firms of Mayer, Brown & Platt and Irell & Manella. He has been a contributing columnist to Inc., Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur, and his opinions have been cited in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among others. National Public Radio named his graduation address to Austin Community College one of “the best commencement speeches ever.” Victor pioneered the use of the metaphor “rainforest” in a business context. He applied it to show how communities can replicate the historical innovation dynamics of Silicon Valley. His co-authored book, The Rainforest, was awarded Book of the Year, Gold Medal, by ForeWord Reviews for “a big idea that defines a way of thinking.” Victor received his bachelors degree (with honors) from Harvard University, where he studied Government, plus additional studies in Computer Science. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago. Download a headshot (digital). Download a headshot (print). 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