Caterina Fake: Teach Yourself

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Caterina Fake is best known for being the co-founder of Flickr, which pioneered a ton of the things that we now take for granted on the internet: social networking, tagging, and content surfacing algorithms to name just a few.

But like many of us, her career path has been - to say the least - unpredictable. On the way to becoming the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake explored everything from banking to graphic design to writing novels, and she’s now the Chairman of the Board for Etsy, a board member at Creative Commons, and on the board of advisors for the Berkeley School of Information. And while there's a narrative in our culture that this sort of winding path indicates that something went wrong, I believe the opposite - I believe that it creates the sort of eclectic, versatile people who will (like Caterina) thrive in the new "skill economy."

Today on the podcast,

* How Caterina ended up co-founding Flickr and ultimately selling it to Yahoo even though she grew up as a self-described “artsy girl” - a far cry from what many would expect of a tech founder

* Some great advice for writers, specifically around how to create the kind of habits that will get you into the groove of relentless daily productivity, and keep you there

* Why she calls herself a “reclusive extrovert” and why online communities are an ideal fit for reclusive extroverts

This episode first appeared on CreativeLive as part of the 30 Days of Genius series. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody out there in Internet Land.
0:05.0	How's it going?
0:07.0	I'm Chase Jarvis.
0:08.0	Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live.
0:12.0	You know this show, you subscribe.
0:14.0	This show is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders,
0:19.0	and do my best to unpack actionable and valuable
0:21.8	insights with the goals of helping you live your dreams in career, in hobby, and in life. And I think
0:27.9	that's a worthy goal. My guest today is Katarina Fake. You guys should know who Katarina is. If you
0:34.1	don't, you're about to expand your mind catarina invented flicker so if you like
0:39.6	photos and you like the internet you're going to love this podcast because we talk about those early days
0:45.2	of let's just call it sort of internet one and a half point oh leaning into two point oh the idea of
0:50.8	cataloging photographs of storing them on the internet of sharing them them with friends, of commenting, all of that was very, very early, and it was founded, and the foundation of that on the internet was Flickr.
1:03.3	So she ultimately sold that for a very nice chunk of change to Yahoo.
1:07.4	You can hear about that story.
1:08.9	On the way to that, she's also done so many things. She was,
1:12.5	you know, a graphic designer. She wrote some novels. And I think she was originally in banking.
1:18.5	It's all over the map. And that's one of the things that I love about this particular conversation,
1:22.7	is that we explore that now more than ever, that non-straight line, that non-linear path, that
1:29.6	is the future.
1:30.6	So if you've ever felt like, oh man, I'm a little bit lost or I don't know exactly what
1:34.4	I want to do or I'm trying to figure it out despite having this checkered past either
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