Linda Rottenberg (Endeavor) - Crazy is a Compliment

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Linda Rottenberg, co-founder and CEO of Endeavor Global, shares smart lessons for cutting an entrepreneurial path in a turbulent world. Touching on elements from her upcoming book, Crazy is a Compliment, Rottenberg unpacks insights from Endeavor's work driving entrepreneurship in emerging markets around the world.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	Today's guest is extremely special to me.
0:21.6	In fact, I would say that Linda Ruttenberg, I am the president of her fan club.
0:27.6	She is one of the most impressive and fabulous people I've ever known.
0:32.6	I have been following her work for over a decade, and you are going to be in for an incredible treat.
0:38.7	But don't just listen to me. She has been lauded all over the world.
0:43.2	US News called her one of America's best leaders, Time Magazine, one of the 100 innovators
0:48.7	of the year. And we're going to get to hear her insights on high-impact entrepreneurship.
0:53.8	And I'm also really delighted
0:55.3	she's here on the eve of the launch of her new book, which is called Crazy as a Compliment,
1:00.2	which is coming out in October. So the way this is going to work is that Linda's going to talk
1:04.4	to us for about 20, 25 minutes, and then we're going to open it up for questions. And I'm going
1:09.0	to ask questions, but so are you.
1:16.0	So as she's talking, spent some time thinking about the burning questions that you have as she tells her story.
1:17.2	Take it away, Linda.
1:18.7	Thank you.
1:28.8	In the spring of 1998, I walked into an unassuming room in an unnamed neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
1:36.4	I was there to meet Wences Casares, a 24-year-old charismatic son of a sheep farmer from Patagonia, who now had the improbable idea of creating the e-trade of Latin America.
1:42.4	When I walked out of that office, I was carrying with me one of the
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