Ask dumb questions, embrace mistakes — and other lessons on innovation | Dave Raggio

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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To launch new initiatives within the confines of a large corporation, you'll need to work with the system, not against it, says "intrapreneur" Dave Raggio. He shares three lessons on innovation he learned the hard way — so you don't have to. (Made in partnership with Intuit)

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0:00.0	TED Audio Collective.
0:09.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hew.
0:16.8	Instead of being entrepreneurs, you can be an intrapreneur,
0:21.4	working toward innovations and solutions within the company you already work for.
0:26.8	In his 2024 talk, Intuit Vice President Dave Raggio takes us through lessons from working on a skunk works team inside his larger business,
0:35.5	and how the rest of us can do it too. It's coming up after the break.
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1:23.4	Two years ago, I became an accidental entrepreneur, meaning an entrepreneur, but within a larger company.
1:30.8	Didn't mean to. When I started at Intuit in 2020, my job was to do marketing and advertising for QuickBooks.
1:38.9	But it was in that position that I saw an opportunity, an opportunity for Intuit to help connect our small business
1:45.8	customers with complementary products and services that would help them grow and thrive
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