SACRAMENTO’ S LARGEST & MOST ADVANCED REPROGRAPHER
( Before you binge " Stranger Things " and call it work, Stewart quickly clarifies that he means Netflix documentaries.)
Stewart is no outlier. All innovators devour content.“ I read excessively, all the time,” says Pam Marrone, CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations, a biotech company focused on pest management and plant health. She drinks from the fire-hydrant of Twitter, LinkedIn, industry newsletters, Fast Company and Wired.“ I do feel like only the paranoid survive,” she says,“ and that I have to be on top of the latest trends.” Books play a role. While traveling on planes, Marrone says she speed-reads one book per flight on her iBooks app( she likes Annie Proulx novels, The Moth Snowstorm and The Innovator ´ s Dilemma, to name a few).
NETWORK( WISELY) At The Urban Hive, a coworking space in Midtown Sacramento, you’ ll find a large open kitchen that they call, well, The Kitchen. Founder Brandon Weber, who is also the founder of I / O Labs( a coworking space much larger than the Hive geared toward innovators, entrepreneurs and investors), describes The Kitchen as“ this little insidious room that hasn’ t been updated since 1984.” Members will bump into each other, make small talk, grab coffee.“ This is where the magic happens,” says Weber, who has seen these coffee sessions morph into meetings with $ 150-million venture capitalists.
Creative-types flock to The Kitchen because oftentimes great ideas die in solitude.“ Good innovators will bounce ideas off each other,” says Marrone.“ A lot of noninnovators will suffer in silence and try and work things out alone. Good innovators will use every resource at their disposal.”
On a grander scale, Stewart sees this jostling of ideas as crucial to Sacramento’ s innovation.“ One of the things that creates successful innovation ecosystems is providing the space for people to meet and talk,” Stewart says.“ This helps spark new ideas.”
Beyond coworking spaces and the private sector, the City of Sacramento created the Demonstration Partnership Policy to link the government with private companies, with an eye towards spurring creative solutions. This ecosystem creates surprising partnerships that unlock new ideas, like how a ride-sharing program( Lyft) is working with a health care system( Sutter) to bring moms in lower-income communities to their prenatal care appointments.
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