Startups: The Extreme Sport of Business

Venture for America Detroit Training Camp talk, July 2018

Transcript

1. Good Engineering
   is good enginee
   startups
   the extreme sport of business
   

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11. about me
    

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12. about me
    

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13. geek
    

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14. Good Engineering
    is good enginee
    skateboarding
    

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15. 

    art &
    design
    

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16. hacking
    

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17. Creativity is just connecting things.
    When you ask creative
    people how they did
    something, they feel a
    little guilty because
    they didn’t really do it,
    they just saw something.
    It seemed obvious to them
    a!er a while. That’s because
    they were able to
    connect experiences
    they’ve had and
    synthesize new things.
    – Steve Jobs
    

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22. #DuoInSpace
    

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23. a2techfilm.com
    

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24. Kid Koala
    

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25. Royce Da 5’9
    

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26. Detroit Jit
    

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27. Redman
    

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30. #givefirst
    

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31. culture & revolution
    1984 today
    

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32. culture & revolution
    1984 today
    

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33. we reject kings,
    presidents, & voting
    join up
    join us join in
    

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34. we believe in
    rough consensus
    & running code
    – David Clark, 1992
    

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35. open source
    gi! culture
    win! win!
    

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36. 1999: birth of the hackathon
    

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37. 1999: disrupting the
    music industry via MP3
    

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38. 1999: disrupting the
    music industry via MP3
    

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39. 1999: disrupting the
    music industry via MP3
    

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40. hackers save the internet
    

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41. hackers save the internet
    

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42. hackers save the internet
    

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    how three teenage friends, fueled
    by sex, drugs and illegal code, pulled off
    the biggest cybercrime of all time
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    THEY’D BEEN HIGH ALL WEEKEND LONG – ON ECSTASY, COKE, MUSHROOMS AND
    acid – so there seemed little harm in doing one last bump of
    Special K while they packed up to leave their $5,000-a-night duplex
    in South Beach. For the past three days, the three friends had bare-
    ly bothered leaving their hotel, as a dozen club kids in town for Winter
    Music Conference, the annual festival that draws DJs and ravers from
    all over the world, flocked to their luxury suite to partake of the drug
    smorgasbord laid out on the coffee table. But even stoned on industrial-
    grade horse tranquilizers, Albert Gonzalez remained focused on business
    – checking his laptop constantly, keeping tabs on the rogue operators
    he employed in Turkey and Latvia and China, pushing, haranguing, issuing
    hackers gone wild
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45. Entrepreneurs, Ex-Cons, Billionaires
    w00w00 in 2014
    

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46. security and responsibility
    devious
    tactics! creative
    

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47. ethics of responsibility
    • Do not contribute with your work to
    social harm.
    • Contribute with your work to the
    social good.
    • These obligations stem from your
    professional role.
    Philip Rogaway,
    “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work”
    

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48. D&D builds character(s)
    Breaks rules
    Plays by rules
    Helpful
    Harmful
    Chaotic
    Lawful
    Good
    Evil
    

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50. Lawful Good Neutral Good Chaotic Good?
    Lawful Neutral True Neutral Chaotic Neutral
    Lawful Evil? Neutral Evil Chaotic Evil
    

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51. Students Install Hot
    Tub on North Campus
    February 22, 2012
    

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53. hacking UM
    

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54. cypherpunks write code
    “privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age”
    

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55. 2014: 600m users go dark
    

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56. 2014: 600m users go dark
    

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57. “so!ware is eating the world”
    – Marc Andreesen
    WSJ, Aug 2011
    

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58. startups are science
    

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59. startups are community
    

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60. startup coworking & community
    

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61. all hands active
    

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62. sharing geek culture
    

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63. asian (billionaire) dad says
    Teens: Be A Good Student,

    Learn to Learn
    20s: Follow a Good Boss, 

    Not a Company
    30s: Work for Yourself,

    Choose Best Field
    40s: Be Aware Of and

    Utilize Your Strengths
    50s: Young People Lead;

    Invest in Them
    

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64. thank you!
    

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