This worry motivates AOL co-founder Steve Case: America’s prosperity could be at risk if venture capital continues to flow to Silicon Valley and other elite tech hubs at the expense of the rest of the country.
An economic evangelist for America’s heartland, Case, 58, in recent years has been on a mission to redirect critical investment to innovators in places like Cincinnati, Des Moines and Albuquerque.
And for one day in October, Case will turn his attention to Lancaster.
Case announced Monday that his Rise of the Rest bus tour will be coming to town Tuesday, Oct. 10.
At a special public event, Case will listen to eight southcentral Pennsylvania entrepreneurs pitch their ideas. The best one gets a $100,000 investment from Case himself.
Joining him will be J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist best known for his top-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Case that day will also visit Harrisburg and York.