James Beshara (Tilt) - Building Insights with Bricks and Mortar

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

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

James Beshara, CEO and co-founder of mobile-crowdfunding platform Tilt, breathes new life into tired cliches, explaining the insights and inspiration they hold for entrepreneurs. Beshara, who has pushed the crowdfunding envelope since 2007, shares his belief in the power of the collective and seeing beyond individual data points to understand larger trends in behavior and business.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.1	We are so pleased today to continue this series in the fall with James Bischera.
0:24.6	I have never met him before until today, but I feel like I know him because I've had so much fun getting ready to do this introduction.
0:34.7	How many of you have used Tilt before?
0:38.0	Well, yeah, and I can see why.
0:40.4	This thing has got exponential growth,
0:42.7	but it's a wonderful story behind it.
0:45.0	James went to Wake Forest University, which
0:48.0	is in the south, for those of you know where it is.
0:50.8	I grew up in Atlanta, and I know where Wake Forest is,
0:53.2	and that's very, very cool.
0:55.0	He also did some incredible work after school in Africa and I hope that he'll, you know, share that with us as well.
1:03.0	But without further ado, let's welcome the co-founder and CEO of Tilt, James Beshearra.
1:08.0	Thank you, sir.
1:14.0	Ah, clicker.
1:15.5	Put water right there.
1:18.0	Thank you guys for coming to this and have an interest in the talk.
1:22.9	I hope to keep it informative and helpful for you guys.
1:26.4	First off, and I was telling Tom and Anais this before coming up here in a prep call
1:33.6	that it's really special to be here because five, six years ago when I was living in Cape Town,
1:39.1	South Africa, I would listen to these podcasts and, man, it was, I was literally 10,000 miles away,
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