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Entrepreneurs on Fire

The Art of Manufacturing is not lost with Krisztina Holly

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Z is an MIT-trained engineer, tech entrepreneur and adventurer. After a decade in tech, she founded two university innovation centers - at MIT and USC - that have launched dozens of venture-backed startups. She created the first ever TEDx event in 2009. She currently hosts The Art of Manufacturing podcast.

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0:00.0

Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to episode 1495 of EO Fire,

0:09.6

right? Shout out to today's most successful entrepreneur, Seven Days a Week! Knock over

0:15.6

that domino, Fire Nation. Start your chain reaction of awesome with TheFreedomJournal.com.

0:21.5

Now let's shout out to today's featured guest, Christina Holly, otherwise known as Z. So Z,

0:27.1

are you prepared to ignite? I'm prepared. Yes, I got the match. Woohoo! Z, Fire Nation is an MIT

0:34.8

trained engineer, tech entrepreneur and adventurer. After a decade in tech, she founded two

0:41.5

university innovation centers at MIT and USC that have launched dozens of venture back startups.

0:48.7

She created the first ever TEDx event in 2009 and she currently hosts the Art of Manufacturing

0:55.8

Podcast. So Z, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give me a little

1:02.3

detail of your personal life. Yeah, so personally, I just, I love adventure and I love to do all sorts

1:11.2

of crazy stuff, but you know, when I think about my career, I've been spending many days,

1:17.5

decades starting companies and helping other people start companies. And if I think about

1:21.7

kind of the common themes and what I'm really passionate about is to identify undiscovered talent

1:26.6

ideas and to help them amplify their impact. And more recently, I've been focusing that energy

1:32.8

on manufacturing entrepreneurs recently launched a nonprofit for LA Mayor Garcetti called

1:38.6

Make It an LA. And I'm especially excited about my podcast, the Art of Manufacturing.

1:44.3

Yeah, spotlighting amazing people that are building stuff and trying to make it in their

1:49.1

industries. So yeah, basically, I just love to be a champion for amazing entrepreneurs and ideas.

1:54.7

So what would you see your specialty is like, what's your area of expertise? Break that down

1:58.8

and just like a sentence or two. I'm great at connecting ideas and people, you know, people

2:03.7

are always just remarking at how I just seem to know everyone and how I discover such super

2:10.9

interesting people, whether it's for my podcast or for TEDx or, you know, faculty and the universities

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