poly u presentation
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Heroes, Failures and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Andrew Kwan Founder and CEO of Outwhiz
[email protected] http://outwhiz.com
Intelligent Media Group
China Yellow Pages
Scour
Time Away from Apple
• December 1980 Apple’s IPO• Spring 1985 Fired from Apple• 1997 Apple acquires NeXT
What happened in between?• 1986 Bought Pixar• 1985 – 1997
Foundation work in OS and programing languages OS X, iOS and Objective C
"The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life… I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement 2005
Sustainability
Deep Thinking
Twitch, acquired by Amazon for $970M USD in August 2014
Thank [email protected]