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Yancey Strickler

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TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

the world you see is very hard for someone else to see.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

Yes.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And yeah, how do you carry that?

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

Well, I think it always helps, even when people are opposing you, I think it helps to empathize.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

Because I think everyone, generally, people are operating rationally within their local maximum.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

Yes, yes, yes.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

But can you change that?

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

Yeah.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And it works best if you can crawl into someone's bubble with them and look into the world together.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And by the time you're done talking, it's move forward eight steps.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And, like, people are open to that, I think, in certain circumstances.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

But we all, we're all resistant to being wrong because that means changing, you know, changing means that we were wrong or had to move.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

So, like, those are gentle things to do.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

But, yeah, I mean, the Artist Corporation idea is, it's, well, first, it's just teaching me more about how the universe works.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And,

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

I previously co-founded Kickstarter.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And the last time a new corporate structure was made in the United States was 2012.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And it was a public benefit corporation structure.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And Kickstarter was one of the first companies to become one of those.

TED Talks Daily
Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

And so we closely followed as the process was happening, as it was being passed as law and states, and yeah, just had a bit of an inside view into that.