The concept challenge for the Sloan Fellows of the London Business School was autonomy in entrepreneurialism and they were set free in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco for a week to learn and discover through visits with corporations. They engaged with startups to established companies such as Google X and Twitter and, as in any form of discovery, you find what you didn’t go looking for.

The culture of the entrepreneurs in that part of the world is that of a holistic community. They are all together in the mission, they converse and they share even with...