Key Themes

#entrepreneur

  • The importance of emotional investment

  • How to become a successful founder

  • The value of co-founders and investors

12 Videos - 41 Minutes

  • 1

    Making Mistake for Fun and Profit

    • 1 - My Entrepreneurial Origins

    • 2 - Making Mistakes for Fun and Profit

    • 3 - The Importance of Emotional Investment

    • 4 - The Value of Co-Founders

    • 5 - What Makes Jack Dorsey So Successful

    • 6 - Investors Are Employees You Cannot Fire

    • 7 - Tell A Story, Make It True

    • 8 - Entrepreneur vs Entrepreneurial

    • 9 - What Was Twitter's Genius?

    • 10 - Get It Done

    • 11 - The Rare and Most Valuable Skills

    • 12 - How I Learn

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Instructors

Biz Stone

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

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Reviews

5 star rating

Interesting backstory and advice for entrepreneurs

Shonali Banerjee

It was useful to hear about the blog startup and lessons learned, as well as the advice on investors being like employees you can't fire.

It was useful to hear about the blog startup and lessons learned, as well as the advice on investors being like employees you can't fire.

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4 star rating

Really enjoyable course

Daniel Dipper

Great way to demystify entrepreneurship as something that can be dynamic and fun.

Great way to demystify entrepreneurship as something that can be dynamic and fun.

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