The Atlantic's Senior Editor Alexis C. Madrigal visits from the Bay Area to examine Detroit's "dark euphoria" and meets with Detroit Venture Partners' Josh Linkner.
"People want to be excited for Detroit. They want Clint Eastwood and Eminem to be right. They want grit to count for something in today's economy. Linkner, for his part, is sure that it does. 'I'll put a Detroit entrepreneur up against anyone against anyone from the coasts and I think we'd kick their ass,' he tells us. He quotes the Chrysler commercial, 'The hottest fire makes the strongest steel.'"
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