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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
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grown from Just the Two of Us in a garage into A2 billion doll company with over 4,000 employees we just released
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
grown from Just the Two of Us in a garage into A2 billion doll company with over 4,000 employees we just released
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
fired how can you get fired from a company you started well as Apple grew we hired
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me and for the first year or so things went well but
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
my life during the next 5 years I started a company named next another company named Pixar and fell in love
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
started a company named next another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford
She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School, founded the Gillian Lynne Dance Company, met Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED
telling them: "By age 25, I will build the biggest company in the world, and that company will buy Microsoft."
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
I will build the biggest company in the world, and that company will buy Microsoft." (Laughter)
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
I was 30. Nope, I didn't build that company. I didn't even start.
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
I didn't even start. I was actually a marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company. And I felt I was stuck;
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
And every time that six-year-old won. And this fear even persisted after I started my own company. I mean, I started my own company when I was 30 --
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
And this fear even persisted after I started my own company. I mean, I started my own company when I was 30 -- if you want to be Bill Gates,
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
And this is where it clicked for me. OK, I can build a better company. I can build a better team or better product,
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED
There is an adoption curve that has to happen, though, right? I think what you’re saying is what undergirds our entire company, which is: safety is urgent, saving lives.
Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED
TM: Yeah, I think, you know, right now for us, we're the only company operating at this scale. We think it’s really important to just stay laser-focused on that.
Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED
where anyone who slows down gets overtaken by someone who doesn't. If one company pauses for safety, another one takes the market. If a country stops to regulate, another one races ahead.
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED
She sang for churches and did backup singing for extra cash. My father worked in the factory at a polyurethane company. He had Carhartt before it was fashionable, OK?
How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED
My name is Lauren Keyana Palmer, and I’m the CEO of the Keke Palmer Company -- a company I created out of nothing
How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED
and I’m the CEO of the Keke Palmer Company -- a company I created out of nothing with my mother, my father
How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED
Harvey is an AI. A bespoke system I'd been building with a legal AI company for the last year. And I trained it on every question asked by a Supreme Court justice
What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED
Larry Ellison, the chairman of our predictive software company, appropriately named Oracle,
Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED
divide by three and refine from there. Saudi Arabia's Prince Al Waleed created an entire public company, basically to get higher on the Forbes list.
The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED
Kylie Jenner's team gave us what we believe are bogus numbers about her company to get onto the Forbes billionaires list,
The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED
Until I did. I created a company, I poured a decade of my life into it.
How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED
And then the AI company whose model most of my users loved sent me a trademark claim.
How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED
And yes, that's kind of as scary as it sounds. So no large company would ship something like that. But I'm a random builder from Austria.
How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED
And agents are about to do the same. Imagine a company, a small business that has ten agents that are all specialized,
How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED
Ten years ago, I was an MBA intern with an opportunity at a Fortune 50 company, a company that I had had my eye on for years.
What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED
with an opportunity at a Fortune 50 company, a company that I had had my eye on for years. I was doing really well in the internship.
What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED
which meant I wasn't getting that job. As an added bonus, per company protocol, I was then escorted out of the building by security
What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED
and it's getting great results. We can roll it out across the company next year, but in order to do that,
What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED
and things that would produce actual revenue and quality work for a company. And this was conditioned by my years of schooling,
3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED
that they were significantly more comfortable taking risks that would benefit their group or company over one that would benefit themselves as individuals.
Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED
I was on a call the other day with a client. She is the head of HR for a pretty big company. It was she and I and one of her colleagues on the call.
3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED
We loved this idea. And so we partnered with a local construction company to design, build and donate a tiny house.
3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED
Let me give you an example of what this feels like. Let's say there was a company, a tech startup that came to you and said, "We have a great product.
What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda
We're free from the censorship of corporate legal departments. We can be far more interdisciplinary than any one company. And our very mission is to share what we learn with the world.
Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED
to make this crystal clear. When consumers know that a company is acting in their best interest, it sets the foundation for deeper and more meaningful connections.
Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED
and incredible knowledge. And so Opportunity Threads was started as an employee-owned company around developing sustainable textiles.
A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED
upcycling upwards of 60,000 T-shirts every week. They're a profitable company, a really brilliant, bright light in our community.
A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED
We did it in 18 months. As a company, we've never been in the red. It’s a social enterprise non-profit that is still a business.
Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED
Minamata Bay in Japan is a more iconic case of mercury poisoning. In 1932 there was a company that was releasing mercury into the bay. It took about 25 years to show the effects in people.
The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED
It's extraordinary. In my case, I bought a rocket company because it was like, interesting.
The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED
then the drug industry can begin to work on things. I have another company I'm associated with which has figured out a way, allegedly, it's a startup,
The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED
I decided that I would try my best. So I founded a company called Anduril. Not a defense contractor but a defense product company.
The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED
So I founded a company called Anduril. Not a defense contractor but a defense product company. We spend our own money building defense products that work,
The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED
It's how we won. The Ford Motor Company, for example, produced one B-24 bomber every 63 minutes.
The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED
Fake videos of doctors promoting bogus cures for serious illnesses. A Fortune 500 company losing tens of millions of dollars because an AI impersonator of their CEO infiltrated a video call.
How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED
for example taking breaks when one tech company took a hard look at the working habits of its staff guess
Slow Work
So let's look at a fictitious example. Clara and her colleagues run a company that sells bottled beverages.
How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED
Clara's colleagues have asked her to write a proposal arguing for how the company ought to respond. So she really needs to get to grips with this proposal --
How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED
Sam Altman: Thank you. It's an honor. CA: Your company has been releasing crazy insane new models pretty much every other week it feels like.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
You gave me a shocking number backstage there. SA: I have never seen growth in any company, one that I've been involved with or not,
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
when we grew up. We didn't think we would have to build a company around this. We learned a lot about how it goes
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
that we have to figure out how to draw the line for, but, you know, I think there will be cases where a company says, OK, we've heard the feedback from society.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
figure out how you would Target and kill a major CEO of a company now I mean we we're not doing that obviously but lots
The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED
She's the founder of a company named Goodr that's redirecting uneaten food from grocery
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
annoying. This This company is creating more hassle for us."
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED
So people have done these genetic tests that this company now has, their genetic code, and it's now up for sale.
Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED
to force a proper negotiation. So in a theoretical world with an ethical AI company, which asked your permission before it scraped your data
Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED
it's just that no one's incentivized to get the word out. There's no drug company behind this. And so these are the kinds of systems problems that exist that you see,
How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED
and not have a conversation for its sake, to enjoy the company of another human? Because in reality, what we do know
What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED
Researchers are now reconstructing the genomes of extinct species, with one company planning to resurrect the woolly mammoth by as early as 2028.
How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED
And then whatever comes out of it, rather than hoarding it for one company or one country to do it and share it with the world,
3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED
or work in very senior positions in businesses. You need to see about how does your company integrate AI, not in a way to replace people,
3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED
some vases and pretty much every wine glass that I own. So I called my insurance company, and I wanted to ask them about expanding my home insurance coverage
My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED
I own the robot, the company programed the robot and my friend is operating the robot
My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED
than any other actor in society? Any company? Any government?
Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED
She died alone in 1940 in the company of her books and her dear friends. Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life
Tell her you were brave, and always, always in the company of courage, mostly the days when you just had yourself.
Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED
ending a relationship, asking for a promotion, quitting a job, starting a company. It could be anything.
Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED
and then they've realized that they're miserable. One friend described becoming CEO of her company and immediately thinking,
Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED
my fascination with the role of imagination and sexuality only grew. Eventually, I left the career I'd built to start a company called Dipsea, which creates stories, audio stories, designed to turn women on.
The Relationship Between Sex and Imagination | Gina Gutierrez | TED · TED
I wasn't yet a principal dancer. I was still a soloist, 12 years into the company, carrying the weight of roles I had dreamed of
The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED
But ballet was not always the safe place I hoped it would be. I was the only Black woman in a company of more than 80 dancers. And for all the stability and belonging I had discovered early on in ballet,
The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED
Raven had been the first Black woman to dance in a major American ballet company, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in the 1950s,
The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED
In 2015, I was promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, the first Black woman in the company’s then 75-year history. (Applause)
The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED
This is the question I was forced to confront when the company I'd spent a decade pouring my soul into shut down. My work had been my entire identity,
What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED
to funding challenges, we had to shut down the company. I failed.
What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED
where I threw myself into healing with the same intensity I'd once poured into my company. I was willing to do anything because this was a matter of survival.
What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED
that I pushed past all my limits, and when the company failed, it shattered my sense of self. I now know I'm not defined by my external successes or failures.
What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED
because the only time I want to be kept up all night long tossing and turning is when I’m in the company of a fine-ass man. (Laughter)
How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED
(Applause) So in 2012, I started a company to teach girls to code, and what I found is that by teaching them to code
Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani
to Adobe to IBM to Microsoft to Pixar to Disney, I mean, every single company out there. And if you're not signed up, I'm going to find you,
Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani
And if you're not signed up, I'm going to find you, because we need every single tech company to embed a Girls Who Code classroom in their office.
Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani
My class on W.E.B. Du Bois is where I discovered the name for our television production company, 7th Sun.
Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED
to unlock the really big questions, the giant scientific breakthroughs, because it's been such a theme driving you and your company. DH: So I mean, one of the big things AI can do,
How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED
We think that's almost every biologist in the world is making use of this now, every pharma company. So we'll never know probably what the full impact of it all is.
How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED
So we'll never know probably what the full impact of it all is. CA: But you're continuing this work in a new company that's spinning out of Google called Isomorph.
How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED
my six-year-old nephew Caspian was playing with Pi, the AI I created at my last company, Inflection. With a mouthful of scrambled eggs,
What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED
So we were very excited about this result. And the students and I went out to form a company, and we now have a company called Ambi Robotics.
Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED
And the students and I went out to form a company, and we now have a company called Ambi Robotics. And what we do is make machines that use the algorithms,
Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED
like The Dematerialised or DressX. And a relatively new company, Zero10, also does this. So digital dressing is when an extra layer,
What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED
None of us is immune to heartbreak. My patient Miguel was a 56-year-old senior executive in a software company. Five years after his wife died,
How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED
I listen to nearly 2,000 pitches a year, and I work countless hours with company founders to help them make their pitch even more compelling.
The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series
based on some standard format, but whether you're pitching a company or trying to get buy-in for a passion project at work,
The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series
You would be in very good company because Freud, Sigman Freud, advocated venting as a way to manage
Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED
Meaning an entrepreneur, but within a larger company. Didn't mean to.
Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED
Scott didn’t coin the term, but it was probably this use that stuck, and evolved to describe someone who works independently of any single company. That independence seems to make people happy.
What is a gig economy?
across different gig platforms. For example, the company 99 in Brazil operates a rideshare platform that many people use to deliver packages.
What is a gig economy?