Larry Chiang graduated engineering with a really, really high FICO credit score. Chiang now teaches credit score establishment, creative founder financing and street smart legal at his Stanford Engineering inspired YouTube channel. His channel on ‘technology entrepreneurship’ has as a basecamp, Stanford engineering’s, “Engineering 145”. It was also the theme of his Bloomberg BusinessWeek column, “What They Don’t Teach You at Business School”. Chiang preaches street smarts. After Chiang’s Harvard Law keynote, Harvard Business wrote: “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School“
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My 1st email to Blockstack from 8 mos ago contained a 24-page growth deck and a 2-min product promo video on their product.
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Patrick Stanley (@PatrickWStanley) | |
These guys didn’t even know who I was. But I spent 6 months studying information and communication theory and arrived at the conclusion…
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Patrick Stanley (@PatrickWStanley) | |
that Blockstack would be a pillar of the Information Age. I was so convinced of this that I spent nearly two weeks creating those materials.
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Patrick Stanley (@PatrickWStanley) | |
I was so sure, and still am, that I aimed correctly, that I didn’t want any excuse for them to say “no”. I flew from Zurich to NYC to take..
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Patrick Stanley (@PatrickWStanley) | |
..an interview on the chance they’d say yes. I’ve been in a state of bliss every day since then.
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