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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

173: How to Predict The Future with Kevin Kelly

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

If you don't know Kevin Kelly's name, you undoubtedly know his work. Staying mostly behind the scenes, Kelly has quietly influenced the world as we know it, from pop culture to how we interact with digital technology. He launched and built up one of the most influential media brands in the world, with a devoted audience of millions—a brand that's published, and even launched the careers of Pulitzer Prize winners, presidents, filmmakers, and of course, billionaire entrepreneurs. Kelly is co-founder of the one-and-only Wired magazine. In his time as editor-in-chief at Wired, Kelly was a pioneer of helping the world understand and interact with the internet and digital technology at large, as their role in our lives exploded. Since then, he's gone on to publish multiple books and launch multiple successful businesses. Throughout this interview, though, one theme persists: Kelly is a true futurist. Not only have many of his predictions about the future come true, from crowdfunding to wearable technology, but his keen ability to hack into these cultures early on, before they've hit the mainstream, has been the key to his success. Luckily for our listeners, Kelly reveals in this sweeping interview his methodology for culture-hacking and how he's just so darn good at predicting the future. In this episode, you'll learn: Kelly's method for culture-hacking an audience and building a worldwide brand The future of print media, and how digital entrepreneurs can take advantage of it A rare behind-the-scenes look at the history of Wired The true meaning of "a thousand true fans" and what it means for entrepreneurs How to package every product "like a magazine" & much more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is episode number 173 with Kevin Kelly of the Founder Podcast.

0:07.6

What you need is thirst.

0:09.4

You need to be a thirsty human.

0:11.4

Who is intent on learning.

0:13.5

It's a really fascinating exploration of human potential.

0:17.0

Now.

0:19.7

The Founder Podcast. Even the greatest entrepreneurs had help if you want to learn from

0:26.4

the most successful founders on the planet you are in the right place branson mark cuban

0:31.9

tony robin tim ferris ariana humphington ghost deep case gary v sophia homerosa harper corkran

0:36.8

damon john learn from the greatest minds in business today with interviews hosted by Diana Huffington, Steve Case, Gary V. Sophia Amorosa, Oprah Corcoran, Damon John.

0:38.0

Learn from the greatest minds in business today with interviews hosted by Nathan Chan.

0:42.5

This is not your average entrepreneur podcast.

0:46.3

The Founder Podcast.

0:53.3

Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in. Before we start today's episode, I just want to let

0:59.4

you know that our goal at founder is to help entrepreneurs succeed however we can by giving

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away high quality content in the form of interviews, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube videos,

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you name it.

1:13.9

We put out so much content to help you.

1:19.1

And another interesting project that we're working on right now is partnering with world-class founders like Damon John, Alexa von Tobel, Greta Van Riel, and so many more to teach crucial

1:25.1

skills like negotiation, finance, e-commerce, and so much more.

1:31.4

So if you'd like to get access to these free trainings with founders like this, which is 100% free,

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