From Silicon Valley to Main Street Virginia

Last week, I joined the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness for a discussion in Silicon Valley on the importance of high growth companies to job creation in the US. On August 5, my travels to Blacksburg, VA, on behalf of the White House Rural Council, validated three key messages discussed earlier in the week with the Jobs Council:

• Immigrant entrepreneurs create American jobs.
• Silicon Valley’s "Open Ecosystem" fosters more American jobs.
• America's "So-Lo-Mo" (social-local-mobile) industry creates jobs.