The amazing story of a founder who with no experience but grit, determination, financial security, and a healthy sense of hustle, raised $60 million to solve the biggest problem she could find.
Exactly 7 days before the October TEDx event in Oakland, the event organizer put out a call to Bay Area comedians to perform a 7-minute set at TEDx that weekend.
Instead, I pitched him a character I’d been working on: a Frankenperson cobbled together from the stories of every out-of-touch startup founder and thought leader cliche I’d seen during my time in the tech industry -- complete with brightly-colored blazer.
He agreed. Though, in hindsight, I don’t think he knew what he was signing on for.
Big round of applause for Lindsey Quinn here. For more parodies of TED talks watch this:
Or the most ridiculous parody of them all:
I posted the fake TED talk online, but no one got it!
ReplyDeletenot sure what this says...
The Onion used to do TED talk parodies a long time ago. This is probably the most relevant one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
ReplyDelete2:41 - "But these people are also hindered sometimes BECAUSE they know too much."
ReplyDelete6:50 - "So how does a Paleobiology major at Penn learn how to convert ultrasound into electricity? Well, I literally just Googled it!"
13:51 - "Being naive is sometimes a good thing."
14:24 - "It's going to work, and it's going to be awesome, and I can't wait to give the middle finger and smile at all the engineers that criticized the crap out of me!"
Priceless. Well, actually, a little over $23M....
I think it's closer to $40m now...
DeleteThere's this company named Incomm, and its job listings are like ... well, you can literally just ...
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