99U | Sebastian Thrun on the Universal Law of Innovation: Build It, Break It, Improve It @99u | Uploaded December 2013 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
From the Google Self Driving Car to Google Glass to the education start-up Udacity, Sebastian Thrun has led remarkable teams in the creation of products that will truly change the way the world works in the future. Which is why we selected him as the 2013 winner of the ALVA Award, a special prize presented by Behance in partnership with GE to recognize remarkable serial inventors.
In this talk followed by a Q&A with Behance's Scott Belsky, Thrun outlines his approach to making incredible ideas happen. Along the way he talks about the importance of setting wildly ambitious goals, embracing failure as an opportunity to learn, iterating as fast as you can, and giving your team members the autonomy they need to invent.
See more 99U talks here: 99u.com/videos
About Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is CEO of Udacity, a start-up focused on democratizing higher education. He is also a part-time Google Fellow and Research Professor at Stanford University. Thrun is known for his work at Google X, home to the Google Self Driving Car. He was elected into the National Academy of Engineering at Age 39, and started and sold two companies, after winning the DARPA Grand Challenge, a historical robot race. Fast Company Magazine named him the fifth most creative person in business; he's on Vanity Fair's list of the New Establishment; Foreign Policy named him Global Thinker #4; his inventions have been featured as the best 50 inventions by Time Magazine; and one of his robots was named the top robot of all times by Wired Magazine.
About 99U
99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
From the Google Self Driving Car to Google Glass to the education start-up Udacity, Sebastian Thrun has led remarkable teams in the creation of products that will truly change the way the world works in the future. Which is why we selected him as the 2013 winner of the ALVA Award, a special prize presented by Behance in partnership with GE to recognize remarkable serial inventors.
In this talk followed by a Q&A with Behance's Scott Belsky, Thrun outlines his approach to making incredible ideas happen. Along the way he talks about the importance of setting wildly ambitious goals, embracing failure as an opportunity to learn, iterating as fast as you can, and giving your team members the autonomy they need to invent.
See more 99U talks here: 99u.com/videos
About Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is CEO of Udacity, a start-up focused on democratizing higher education. He is also a part-time Google Fellow and Research Professor at Stanford University. Thrun is known for his work at Google X, home to the Google Self Driving Car. He was elected into the National Academy of Engineering at Age 39, and started and sold two companies, after winning the DARPA Grand Challenge, a historical robot race. Fast Company Magazine named him the fifth most creative person in business; he's on Vanity Fair's list of the New Establishment; Foreign Policy named him Global Thinker #4; his inventions have been featured as the best 50 inventions by Time Magazine; and one of his robots was named the top robot of all times by Wired Magazine.
About 99U
99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
