{"id":3782,"date":"2015-03-06T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2015-03-10T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:55:14","slug":"whats-the-significance-of-selfie-no-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/whats-the-significance-of-selfie-no-self\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s The Entrepreneurial Significance of &#8216;Selfie No-Self&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s 5th book, What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School, launched after a Harvard Law School keynote on the New York Fashion Week runway 09-09-2009. He knows how to sniff out grand openings and crashed them with his dog Baxter. As CEO of Duck9, he spearheads to effort to get college <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101secrets.com\/general-population-credit-knowledge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">consumers get a FICO<\/a> over 750. Post H.L.S. keynote, Harvard Business wrote: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2009\/What-They-Dont-Teach-4531\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>&#8221; (his latest post was done #shirtless as a yogi who &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/entrepreneurship\/setting-an-intention-for-your-sxsw-practice-at-yoga-journal-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sets an intention for SXSW<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 155px;\" width=\"156\" cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QXIaNZi3mHQ?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"260\" height=\"183\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nNY Fashion Week has supermodels getting a high FICO credit score because I supermodel on-the-side<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">By Larry Chiang\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I wanted to call this post, &#8220;The Most Significant Silicon Valley Blog Post&#8221; cuz it is. Bear with me&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">You see as a supermodel, I take legendary selfies. But is there a cultural backlash to taking selfies?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"0A4ADD0C-A164-4F22-8A83-D430A5A6BB73\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image6.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\">Selfie while moderating the 2008 panel, VC Secrets. (It&#8217;s the prequel to #ReverseVC)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">So I DJd my supermodel skills with \u00a0entrepreneur brain and came up with &#8220;#SelfieNoSelf&#8221;. This is my vanguard entrepreneur that may sourpuss my earlier genius entrepreneur works<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; Cross the Chasm from the Right(CTCFTR)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; The Fifth Epiphany (which is CTCFTR lol)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8216;Selfie, no-self&#8217; knowledge activates &#8220;non employee co-founder&#8221;. It&#8217;s something all the elite know but never verbalize because we are too busy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; teaching a class<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; banging<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; guest lecturing at MIT<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; spending money<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; renovating our house that has 5 random founders living in it<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; vacationing 8-12 weeks per year<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; speaking at #OFGPFSE<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; long weekends every weekend<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; working from home 2 days per week<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">WELL, I live in a dorm room, work 6 days\/week, have zero life and bang 1.05 girl(s) per year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is my explosion of work. You&#8217;re welcome!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13.8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\">\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/529399976179564544\">11\/3\/14, 4:29 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m &#8216;non employee co-founder&#8217; of the &#8220;TC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#afterparty\">#afterparty<\/a>&#8221; Original\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#SelfieNoSelf\">#SelfieNoSelf<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wLYlhsXA0Z\">techcrunch.com\/2009\/03\/31\/gue\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/514948987355295744\">9\/24\/14, 8:26 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>My most pivotal lectures are when I abdicate the lectern.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#selfieNoSelf\">#selfieNoSelf<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAF3FsdvHm\">pic.twitter.com\/gAF3FsdvHm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Notice that I placed an audience member on to this VC panel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"6EE77F4B-0226-43BB-B690-992FCB923FB3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image7.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Notice Carly Spoljaric. I crashed an audience member on to my VC panel because she contributed so well from the audience. She was at First Round Capital. This can be seen as the derivation of &#8220;selfie no self&#8221; with foundation abdicating a live panel to take a selfie. I took the genius of my early work and simply removed myself.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/517836439480836098\">10\/2\/14, 7:40 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Do a joke web app that does &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#SelfieNoSelf\">#SelfieNoSelf<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#CS183D\">#CS183D<\/a><br \/>\nRe<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@TechCrunch\">@TechCrunch<\/a>\u00a0Frontback Adds Selfie Comments.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#CS183B\">#CS183B<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#ENGR145\">#ENGR145<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aKEYVOLw9N\">pic.twitter.com\/aKEYVOLw9N<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFGY7v9C4G0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/531123563898499072\">11\/8\/14, 10:38 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Selfie!<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#SelfieNoSelf\">#SelfieNoSelf<\/a>\u00a0(it knowledge activates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#NonEmployeeCoF\">#NonEmployeeCoF<\/a>\u00a0bc I took the pic and cropped myself out)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fk3aZYrToP\">pic.twitter.com\/Fk3aZYrToP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/546616293114118144\">12\/21\/14, 4:40 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Belle and Jenny (post edit) in my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#SelfieNoSelf\">#SelfieNoSelf<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#TreeLotParty\">#TreeLotParty<\/a>!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qV3IG2xTR8\">facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/646546474\/larry-chiang-asse9-gravatar_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Asse9 Austin Secret (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asse9\">@asse9<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asse9\/status\/555054706565722112\">1\/13\/15, 11:32 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#selfieNoSelf\">#selfieNoSelf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hn6Vcagd4e\">pic.twitter.com\/hn6Vcagd4e<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Non employe co-founder are like these startups: LinkedIn, LiveRamp, PowerSet, Palantir, Yelp, 500Startups. All had a PayPal alum as a non employee co founder. #WhoAreYouNetworkingWith<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Every above unicorn had a Founder&#8217;s Fund VC doing the &#8220;non employee co founder&#8221; maneuver FOR THE FOUNDER AND TO THE BENEFIT OF FOUNDERS OF\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; LinkedIn,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; LiveRamp,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; PowerSet,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; Plantar,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; Yelp,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; 500Startups<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No violation of trust or private conversations were used. Even though I&#8217;m personally friends, all this revealed info is from a PayPal alums public remarks recorded and available to you on YouTube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang&#8217;s 5th book, What They Don&#8217;t Teach You At Stanford Business School, launched after a Harvard Law School keynote on the New York Fashion Week runway 09-09-2009. He knows how to sniff out grand openings and crashed them with his dog Baxter. 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