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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 5Petra Wille 3Jonathan Becker 3Matthew Dicks 2Chip Conley 2Shishir Mehrotra 1Rory Sutherland 1Roger Martin 1Nancy Duarte 1Molly Graham 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TED comes up
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 23:46 Molly Graham I actually gave a Ted talk about this one a couple of years ago because I am so passionate about it.
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 33:59 Dr. Fei-Fei Li I gave a Ted talk about spatial intelligence at world models.
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 55:05 Chip Conley And I, and I gave a Ted talk in 2010 about this topic as well.
- ▶ 1:11:35 Chip Conley Um, her Ted talk in 2009 was about the fact that genius is not about being the genius yourself.
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- ▶ 1:02:10 Roger Martin So they try things like, uh, Continental Light or TED that do half the things that, uh, that Southwest does, and then you're what?
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 54:15 Rory Sutherland It's my friend Ted, who was a biochemist at Penn, I think at the time.
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
- ▶ 1:18:03 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me of an episode of Matthew Dix, who has a TED talk about saying yes to everything.
How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
- ▶ 1:15:46 Matthew Dicks And I have a Ted talk about it that I go on for 17 minutes about.
- ▶ 1:24:44 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me a friend of mine gave a Ted talk and he shared that they give you this advice that people are different kinds of learners.
- ▶ 1:29:19 Matthew Dicks So we say yes with the acknowledgement that we can say no eventually, but a yes can lead to extraordinary things, and if you watch my TED talk on saying yes, you'll see that yeses just lead to these extraordinary chains where you said yes…
Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 13:55 Lenny Rachitsky At TED, their mission is to spread ideas.
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky Including Apple, Ted, Google, the World Bank, and famously Al Gore on his inconvenient truth presentation.
- ▶ 17:13 Nancy Duarte That was in my Ted talk from 2011.
Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- ▶ 7:44 Jonathan Becker In 2013, I got invited to go down to the TED conference, which was in Long Beach, California, and my friend Andrew Wilkinson asked me to join him at a dinner that night. 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- ▶ 41:56 Christina Wodtke And if you look at Ted, like everybody loves a Ted talk, like they're mostly all just stories, right?
How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
- ▶ 46:54 Petra Wille That's sad, but he gave great Ted talks, really data heavy Ted talks because they often hear from product people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:03 Petra Wille And 80 minutes is the length of an average TED talk.
Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
- ▶ 54:13 Lenny Rachitsky I remember learning about her when, when Al Gore did his TED talk and her whole agency was
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- ▶ 25:49 Shishir Mehrotra And then he has a group of editors, the same group that actually edits Ted.