Cyriac Roeding (Shopkick) - You Have to Break the Egg

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Cyriac Roeding, co-founder and CEO of mobile app company Shopkick, shares personal stories and insights on dealing with the essential questions facing entrepreneurs. He also provides unique perspectives on the nature of mobile interaction, and offers essential tips for building truly awesome teams.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Today, I am so pleased to introduce today's speaker, Syriac Roding.
0:22.6	Now, normally in the past, we've had speakers that are either serial entrepreneurs
0:27.6	or famous executives at big corporations or academic thought leaders.
0:32.6	And today you're going to get three for the price of one, in fact, more than three for the price of one.
0:36.6	Syriac is most famously the co-founder and CEO of Shopkick, one of the most popular and successful
0:43.3	shopping apps in the world. And as a serial entrepreneur, Syriac founded his first mobile
0:47.3	startup in 1999. Syriac has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
0:53.3	He's also a published author of the book,
0:55.6	The Secrets of Software Success,
0:57.5	and he founded CBS's mobile division in 2005.
1:01.5	If that's not intimidating enough,
1:03.4	he also served as an entrepreneur in residence
1:05.6	as part of Kleiner Perkins' I fund.
1:07.9	Today, Syriac is going to share his perspective
1:10.4	on the changing mobile landscape,
1:11.6	dispel some myths that exist in the mobile space, and offer insights in how to develop
1:16.4	engaging mobile experiences for users around the world. So without further ado, please join me
1:22.3	in welcoming Syriac Roading.
1:25.6	Thanks, Bobby. That introduction scared me personally as well.
1:31.3	So it's a pleasure to be here today.
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