Start Me Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

SSAC

English - June 28, 2020 15:35 - 55 minutes - 102 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Nate Silver – Editor-in-Chef, FiveThirtyEight

Dean Kamen – Founder, FIRST

Alexis Ohanian – Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Initialized Capital & Co-Founder, Reddit

Jason Robins – CEO & Co-Founder, DraftKings

Jessica Gelman (Moderator) – CEO, Kraft Analytics Group

Reddit, the Segway, Daily Fantasy Sports, and predicting presidential elections. Over the past decade, meet the inventors and entrepreneurs who have created lasting change affecting how consumers engage with information, data, and the world. How did they conceive of their ideas? What challenges did they face in their journey to create the product and build the business? How would today’s technology accelerate their original ideas? While some have made their mark in the sports industry by identifying changing consumer preferences and technological advances, others find inspiration from other industries. This panel will share learnings across industries, analyze how serial entrepreneurs build innovative ideas and ideate on where they see opportunities in sports.