Great talks on entrepreneurship and following your passion
About a year ago, a friend of mine recommended I watch a video consisting of Joe Liemandt (Bio) giving a talk at Stanford about how he started his company during his undergrad at Stanford. I found the video very inspirational and motivating. He had just one more semester left in order to graduate, and he tossed all in the back burner to go with something he wanted to do then and now, and it was NOT an easy path starting up Trilogy (his company).
In the clip below he’s talking about how everyone should experience some level entrepreneurship. Through out his talk he really pushes the idea of dropping out of college to start your own company.
I highly recommend anyone who has any sort of passion for what they do to check out his full talk, it’s inspirational, funny, and one of the most motivating talks I ever listened to.
Joe Liemandt’s full talk on entrepreneurship (contains video and mp3): http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1446
Another great talk that is also a must watch, and has the same take away message as Joe Liemandt’s talk, is Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement address.