Cory Booker's tech startup failed but industry ties lasted
Cory Booker was the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city and considering a run for higher office, but he had a different goal in mind when he appeared on stage at the 2012 Tech Disrupt Conference in San Francisco.Booker was there to promote Waywire, the social media company that he had recently co-founded. He believed the video-sharing network could change the way millennials consumed news and participated in politics ” a prospect that positioned Booker as a tech-savvy political leader […]
