Entrepreneers are people, because we have a lot of them in this room, who have these ideas and these passions or see these needs in the world, and we decide to stand up and do it, and we put everything on the line to make that stuff happen.

And we have the ability to get those groups of people around us and want to kind of build that dream with us.

And I think if we could get kids to embrace the idea at a young age of being entrepreneurial,

we could change everything on the world that is a problem today. Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to you by its founder Cameron Herald in the second in command

podcast we talked to top coos who share the insights strategies and tactics that made

them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

Are you a fan of Ted or Ted X Talks? I've attended the main five-day Ted since 2010.

The reason I get to attend is because my TEDx Talk, let's raise kids to be

entrepreneurs, went viral in 2009 and it's now

had over two and a half million views online. I hope you enjoy this talk as much as

I enjoyed giving it. It. I would be willing to bet that I'm the dumbest guy in the room because I couldn't get through

school, I struggled with school, but what I knew at a very early age was that I loved money

and I loved business and I loved this entrepreneurial thing and I was

raised to be an entrepreneur and what I've been really passionate about ever since and I've

never spoken about this ever until now so this is the first time anyone's ever heard it except my wife three days ago

she said what are you talking about and I told her I think we miss an opportunity

to find these kids who have the entrepreneurial traits and to groom them or show

them that being an entrepreneur is actually a cool thing. It's not something that is a

bad thing and is vilified which is what happens in a lot of society.

Kids when we grow up have dreams and we have passions and we have visions and

somehow we get those things crushed and we get told that we need to study harder or be more focused

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