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Founders Club12.19.2013

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Fragile

easily broken, shattered, or damaged;delicate; brittle; frail

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What's the opposite of fragile?

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What's the opposite of fragile?

Robust?

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What's the opposite of fragile?

Robust?

Strong?

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What's the opposite of fragile?

Robust?

Strong?

Unbreakable?

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What's the opposite of fragile?

Robust?

Strong?

Unbreakable?

Resilient?

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What's the opposite of fragile?

Robust?

Strong?

Unbreakable?

Resilient?

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Natural systems are built from nonsystemic

mistake to nonsystemic mistake

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Every plane crash makes the next one

less likely, every bank crash makes the next

one more likely

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The fragility of every startup is necessary

for the economy to be antifragile

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lecturing birds how to fly

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lecturing birds how to fly

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Technology is the result of antifragility,

exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering

And trial and error, with nerd-driven design

confined to the backstage.

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Technology is the result of antifragility,

exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering

And trial and error, with nerd-driven design

confined to the backstage.

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the road to robustification

starts with a modicum of harm

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depriving systems of stressors, vital

stressors, is not necessarily a good

thing, and can be downright harmful

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How do you innovate?

First, try to get in trouble

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difficultly is what wakes up the genius

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difficultly is what wakes up the genius

The excess energy from overreaction

to setbacks is what innovates!

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entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity,

necessary for growth or even the mere survival

of the economy

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entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity,

necessary for growth or even the mere survival

of the economy

there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur

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National Entrepreneur Day

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Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but

we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the

sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic

growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty.

You are the source of our antifragility.

Our nation thanks you.

National Entrepreneur Day

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Natural systems love small errors.

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Natural systems love small errors.

Humans do not.

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Natural systems love small errors.

Humans do not.

Avoidance of small mistakes makes the large onesmore severe.

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The crux?

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How can we better share, and learn from

each other's mistakes and failures?

The crux?