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Yale and the Global Entrepreneurial Movement: Keynote by Kevin Ryan ‘85

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Kevin Ryan ’85 delivered the keynote address at the Yale alumni association’s annual assembly on Nov. 13, 2014. The assembly focused on “The Entrepreneurial Spirit at Yale.” A trustee of Yale University, Ryan is a leading Internet entrepreneur, having founded and run New York–based businesses such as Business Insider, MongoDB, Zola and GILT. He helped build the online advertising firm DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, leading it from being a 20-person start-up to a publicly traded global leader with over 1,500 employees. He is now chair of GILT, an e-commerce company launched in 2007 which today has millions of members and a wide variety of product lines. ...more
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Intro

0:00

Yale and EntrepreneurialISM

4:53

Yale graduates dont lack for confidence

5:15

The world is changing

6:14

Ive done nothing since 1996

7:15

Dont dis

7:44

Clients went bankrupt

8:19

Business Insider

9:36

Priceline

12:53

Search

13:37

MongoDB

14:28

Idea

16:13

Three Minute Problem

16:51

Wedding

17:42

Registry

18:13

Craigslist

19:32

Dating Sites

20:40

Trucking

22:27

Big Opportunity

23:43

Airbnb

24:29

Soft commitments

25:14

Student Organizations

28:46

Make It Fun

29:30

Take A Lot Of Risk

30:01

Battlefield Promotions

30:53

Education on the Internet

32:49

Crowdfunding

35:22

Are entrepreneurs born

36:12
Yale and the Global Entrepreneurial Movement: Keynote by Kevin Ryan ‘85
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Kevin Ryan ’85 delivered the keynote address at the Yale alumni association’s annual assembly on Nov. 13, 2014. The assembly focused on “The Entrepreneurial Spirit at Yale.” A trustee of Yale University, Ryan is a leading Internet entrepreneur, having founded and run New York–based businesses such as Business Insider, MongoDB, Zola and GILT. He helped build the online advertising firm DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, leading it from being a 20-person start-up to a publicly traded global leader with over 1,500 employees. He is now chair of GILT, an e-commerce company launched in 2007 which today has millions of members and a wide variety of product lines.

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