Google Ventures

How do you woo a Google executive? Put her in an ELF and bike her around downtown Raleigh. Google for Entrepreneurs’ top exec Mary Grove got that experience during a stop in the Triangle to visit American Underground and its many partners last week. She called Durham-based Organic Transit’s solar and electric trike “edgy” and “a very practical solution”, symbolic of the type of startups she met in town. Local community leaders took her on a tour of co-working spaces, universities and startup offices, and she attended American Underground @Raleigh’s grand opening (where she’s pictured second to right above)....