Faith, Tech and Entrepreneurship: What difference does it make?

Does faith make a difference when it comes to Technology Entrepreneurship? If so, how?

This talk answers the question by comparing and contrasting Jeff Bezos' wisdom with Biblical wisdom. By considering the commonalities, we discover what's still missing, pointing us to the ways faith can make a difference in our pursuit of technology entrepreneurship.

The full talk manuscript is available here: https://meritandgrace.com/faith-tech-and-entrepreneurship-what-difference-does-it-make/
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These slides were from a talk delivered at the "Vocational Thriving in a Changing World" conference in Seattle, WA.

Transcript

1. Faith, Tech & Entrepreneurship Does faith make a difference?
2. Is Bezos Biblical? Comparing his words with Scripture
3. What’s missing?
4. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom?
5. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Non-Christian Explicitly Christian
6. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Kingdom of the World Kingdom of God
7. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Kingdom of the World Kingdom of God Non-Christian Explicitly Christian Don’t make this mistake
8. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom?
9. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical
10. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical Disintegrated
11. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical Disintegrated Aligned
12. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical Disintegrated Aligned Integrated
13. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical Disintegrated Aligned Integrated
14. How Faith Makes a Difference Faith makes God your ultimate customer Faith makes eternal salvation your ultimate exit strategy Faith makes God’s Kingdom your ultimate vision and mission
15. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical Integrated
16. Faith makes God your 
 ultimate customer
17. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Disintegrated Integrated
18. Faith makes eternal salvation your 
 ultimate exit strategy 0 AD 30 AD ∞
19. TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant For Faith-based Vocational Integration Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Aligned Integrated
20. Faith makes God’s Kingdom your 
 ultimate vision and mission
21. Objections “I have no influence” “You’re being unrealistic” “It’s not practical”
22. Review Is Bezos biblical? What’s missing in Bezos’ wisdom? TheoTech’s Magic Quadrant How does faith make a difference? Faith makes God your ultimate customer Faith makes eternal salvation your ultimate exit strategy Faith makes God’s Kingdom your ultimate vision and mission Christianity How “Christian” is it? Kingdom Alignment How close is it to God’s Kingdom? Hypocritical Disintegrated Aligned Integrated
24. Panel Discussion Jonathan Kobayashi
 Pastor at Eikou Christian Church,
 Code for the Kingdom Organizer Chris Pleasants
 SDET at Amazon, 
 Leader of Christians @ Amazon group. Michael Herrera
 Community Organizer,
 Christian Game Developer’s Conference
25. Links https://www.patreon.com/theotech https://www.theotech.org/podcasts/