Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

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Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
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Mark Weinstein outlines a new path for social media that protects, respects, and empowers the regular users.
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How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
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Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
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He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he's a peerless visionary.
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Why the best entrepreneurs should be more Obi-Wan Kenobi than Luke Skywalker.
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Yushiro Kato — the 32-year-old co-founder and CEO of manufacturing platform CADDi — offers his most valuable leadership learnings.
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Big Think interviews Angie Westbrock, CEO of Standard AI, to learn the secrets of adapting to the winds of change.
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Veteran investor Sujal Patel, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, helps us sift golden nuggets from the loose shale of entrepreneurship.
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Whole Foods Market founding CEO John Mackey synthesized the counterculture with capitalism and drove a food revolution.
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To kickstart innovation follow the insider startup knowledge about charisma, “well-rounded square pegs,” and rock-solid teams.
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Defy conventional startup wisdom by charting a steady and impactful path to success.
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The innovative investor and entrepreneur deals out advice for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps.
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Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there's a happy medium to be found.
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Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
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Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
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From fearless quitting to redefined values, "Virtual Natives" are reinventing work culture.
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If you give yourself and others space to tinker and experiment, then you might create something incredible. Here's how to do it well.
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So many of the conditions for a sale or IPO are outside your control — which is why preparation is everything.
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How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.
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Rooted in Vedic philosophy, "anupalabdhi" — or "non-apprehension" — can help you exploit gaps in the market.
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A "stakehodler" has both a voice and a vote, an economic interest in how each network stewards important global resources.
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Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.
Fervo Energy
Ironically, the company did so using technology perfected by the oil industry.
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9mins
It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
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10mins
Tim Ferriss has interviewed some of the most powerful thinkers in the world. This is what he learnt about how they operate.