Meet the Expert: Tim O’Reilly on What's Wrong with Silicon Valley?
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The recent implosion of WeWork and the underperformance of Uber as a public company relative to its inflated pre-IPO expectations are just the tip of the iceberg. Is something wrong with the Silicon Valley funding model and its reliance on venture capital? Is it about to lead to another bust, or can we still find our way to more sustainable tech businesses and investments?
Join us for a special conversation with Tim O'Reilly that will cover why moving fast and breaking things is usually not the best strategy and how emulating the tortoise rather than the hare can lead to business success and building more value over time.
O'Reilly Meet the Expert explores emerging business and technology topics and ideas through a series of one-hour interactive events. You’ll engage in a live conversation with experts, sharing your questions and ideas while hearing their unique perspectives, insights, fears, and predictions.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
By the end of this live show, you’ll better understand:
- The many factors shaping the long-term success of startups
- What the future of Silicon Valley might look like
This live event is for you because...
- You want to learn about the fundamental shifts that are transforming the business landscape and customer needs.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Tim O’Reilly
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us (book)
- Explore Lessons from Amazon, Google, Apple & Other Silicon Valley Giants (expert playlist)
- Read Future of the Firm (report)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Wednesday, January 22, 2019, 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
- Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)
Your Guest
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. His original business plan was simply "interesting work for interesting people," and that's worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs online conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. He’s perhaps best known for his role in shaping big ideas like open source software, unconferences (Foo Camp), Web 2.0, and government as a platform. His 2017 book WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us explored the role of human agency in shaping the future in the face of the coming AI wave. These days, he’s focused on mechanism design for the human-AI economy. Mechanism design is sometimes described as “reverse game theory”, whereby you start with the outcome you want and then figure out what rules of the game will produce that outcome. He explores these ideas at the non-profit AI Disclosures Project, which he co-founded with Ilan Strauss. He writes frequently on Substack at the O’Reilly Radar, the AI Disclosures Project’s Asimov’s Addendum, and his own Conversations with AI.