Brad Feld - Nietzsche for Founders

<p>Join Sal Daher's Investment Syndicate: <a href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Click to Join</a></p> <p>Sponsored by Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson</p> <p>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. </p> <p>Highlights:</p> <ul> <li>Sal Daher Introduces Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Techstars</li> <li><em>The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors</em> by Dave Jilk & Brad Feld</li> <li>“…for every two lines of Nietzsche, there's probably two pages of Brad Feld and another entrepreneur talking about something really important.”</li> <li>“…I thought I knew something about Nietzsche, and pretty much everything I knew about Nietzsche was wrong.”</li> <li>“…Nietzsche was a Nazi.” - "Don't believe everything you hear about Nietzsche."</li> <li>Nietzsche’s Sister and Literary Executor Was Indeed a Nazi Who Tried to Co-opt Her Brother’s Thoughts into Nazism</li> <li>“Dave [Jilk] and I met at MIT, we've been friends since college. I met him on the first day of college.”</li> <li>Product Placement for Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Cambridge </li> <li>Dave Jilk Is the One Who First Became Hooked on Nietzsche</li> <li>Brad Fled and Dave Jilk Edited Quotes from Open-source Translations of Nietzsche’s Works to Make Them Intelligible to 21st Century Readers</li> <li>LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Who Read Philosophy at Oxford, Wrote the Foreword</li> <li>“…page one would be the title page and would say <em>The Venture Playbook</em>, and the next 299 pages would be blank.”</li> <li>“The power of being an entrepreneur is finding your own way.”</li> <li>Nietzsche and Mentor Whiplash</li> <li>Silent Killers</li> <li>Fake It Before You Make – Bad & Good</li> <li>"If thou gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss wil