Brad Feld and Dave Jilk bring the wisdom of modernity's most unsettling thinker to entrepreneurship. Like the ancient Stoics, Nietzsche has much to add to the thought of people disrupting existing assumptions today. Brief excerpts from Nietzsche are paired with essays from founders who grapple with the ideas in question.
An Intimate Conversation with Brad Feld - Brad shares his own views on what it means to be a free spirit. What it means to be a disruptor and how every entrepreneur has lessons to learn from this book. The session is also an intimate look at Feld’s own career, as he weaves his own challenges and triumphs into the story of Nietzsche.
Human Cogs Cohost Madeleine Grummet gets under the hood of Brad's real life as a VC, to uncover his personal drivers, trigger points and life learnings, and discover that the human underneath is incredibly thoughtful, deeply reflective, remarkably wise - and a great storyteller. As you’ll learn in this episode, Brad shares how it has taken him a while to find his place, and that as a reformed workaholic, he now regularly goes off the grid to hit the trails around his hometown of Boulder in Colorado to run miles and miles solo. With his 'engineers brain', he's also committed to continuous improvement, and the kind of person who’s more interested in moving towards not away from problems.
In this episode, we'll hear expert insight from longtime startup investor and veteran entrepreneur Brad Feld, Co-founder of Techstars and Managing Director of the Foundry Group. You might just walk away with the emboldened drive to go start your own venture. To the moon!
There are as many ways to be an entrepreneur as there are entrepreneurs in the world. Therefore, how to be an entrepreneur is largely open to interpretation. Dave Jilk and Brad Feld embraced this gray area in their new book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors.
In it, the authors have curated quotes from the renowned philosopher, Frederich Nietzsche, offered their own musings on each quote, and included first-person essays from dozens of entrepreneurs working in a variety of fields. The goal is for readers to connect with Nietzsche’s ideas in their own way.
On Author Hour today, Brad and Dave discuss why the philosopher inspires them in their work, they connect some of his wisdom to entrepreneurial aims, and they remind us how important it is to think for ourselves.
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