Enrique Allen, Founder, Designer Fund, at Warm Gun, Nov 2012

1. Enrique Allen
#WarmGun
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2. DESIGNER + FOUNDER?

5. WHY CARE?

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29. DESIGNER

30. DESIGNER
FOUNDER

31. EVAN SHARP
of Pinterest

32. EVAN SHARP
of Pinterest
“I did well at [University of Chicago] and it
wasn’t negative, but it was the wrong school
for me. en later on, I went to architecture
school for graduate school and that was the
opposite. It made sense for me. I just killed it
because it was all about making, with a little
bit of reading and writing. Maybe not enough
of that actually.”

33. LESSON
School major isn’t always a predictor

34. RASHMI SINHA
of Slideshare

35. RASHMI SINHA
of Slideshare
“We built Mindcanvas with the revenues from
consulting and built Slideshare based on the
revenues from that and from consulting. We
just took it step after step.”

36. LESSON
Build on small wins

37. Yves Behar
of fuseproject

38. YVES BEHAR
of fuseproject
At these Internet parties, over-stimulated
MBA guys would be like, “We’re doing this
virtually. We’re shipping toys to people.” And I
would tell them, “I actually make the stuff. I
make tangible goods that people can enjoy.”
And their eyes would just completely glaze
over, and like “poof!” I disappeared from the
conversation. It was like, “is guy is
irrelevant, who else can we talk to?” en the
bust happened.

39. LESSON
Be ahead of the bust

40. CHRISTINA
BRODBECK
of theicebreak

41. CHRISTINA BRODBECK
of theicebreak
“While I was at NASA, Max Levchin from PayPal
started an incubator called MRL Ventures and
one of the companies was looking for a designer.
I knew this was my chance. I really had to prove
myself because even though some of them were
my friends, they weren’t just going to give me a
job. I did work for them to prove that they should
hire me while still working at NASA. Some days
when I was “working from home”, I was really in
the city working to convince my friends to
hire me.”

42. LESSON
Step up and prove yourself

43. MATIAS COREA &
SCOTT BELSKY
of Behance

44. SCOTT BELSKY
MATIAS COREA
of Behance
“e funny thing is if you look at the initial
mockups from 2005, we had no fucking clue
what we were doing on the technology,
product side. But we were both real students.”

45. LESSON
Find a complementary partner

46. SCOTT BELSKY
of Behance
“Probably a lot of people aren’t cut out for this.
It’s a tumultuous roller coaster of a journey and
there are many times when it would be a lot
easier to have my paycheck and my health
insurance and just check in, check out and
know I’m going to have a job in three years. But
for people who have the drive, who want to
create value in this world, that’s the start of
what you need to become a founder.”

47. SUMMARY
School major isn’t always a predictor
Build on small wins
Be ahead of the bust
Step up and prove yourself
Find a complementary partner

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