Russell: Media focuses on founders like Neumann and Holmes over successes
Austin Russell · Austin Russell (with will.i.am): From dropout to billionaire | Masters of Scale · Jul 16, 2024 · at 13:03
Austin Russell, founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies, discusses how mainstream entertainment and culture portray entrepreneurs with host will.i.am.
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“When you look at you know, kind of coverage for businesses, as you're saying, or the movies or TV shows that you're highlighting, you take a look at all the ones that have been created around entrepreneurs and it's almost always either some kind of like extreme drama or plot twist or failure or fraud, you know, people don't create movies around all these incredible success stories, you know, that, or the hundreds of entrepreneurs or what, no, they'll create it instead about, you know, I don't know, Adam Neumann or Elizabeth Holmes rather than the hundred entrepreneurs that were actually successful creating like a hundred billion companies and the journeys they had to go through, you know, to be able to do that.”
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