Axiosld like to thank the events team. Thank you for these Virtual Events. We would love for you to follow and you axiosevents can follow us on twitter. Our first guest today started a Small Business. Ushia is going to be with from orange county, california. Eq entertainment and er. Brand q wond this is a curriculum that helps people learn at home, to suddenly in a la mora demand. Thank you for joining in a lot more demand. Thank you for joining axios. How is california . California looks in, but it is outside the window. Not quite as enjoying as i used to. You got the idea for eq entertainment in a college class, i think a lot of Small Businesses start with a germ of an idea. Tell us about eq entertainment. I remember being blown away as a student at harvard. Social learning was number one corlett to life success. That became real to me and i became a parent for the first time. There was not anything out there that made it fun and easy for parents, teachers and kids. I took that 40 ye
Welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. This is the fifth of these discussions. These discussions have tapped the Exceptional Leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. Today is no exception. All of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. Our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jacksons founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th secretary of state under president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yales many schools. It is my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry. At this time, perhaps you might offer perspectives on how you assess the global ramifications of co
Cspan, created by private industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host Mark Randolph is a cofounder of netflix and he is the author of this new book, that will never work. Mr. Randolph, what the idea of netflix come from . Guest ideas come from the strangest places. In that will never work a talk about this crazy idea we had in of all places carpooling. My cofounder Reed Hastings and i were commuting back and forth to work brainstorming ideas, and one of these crazy ideas we had with maybe we could do video rental by mail using dvds. Rather than rushing home writing a Business Plan or hurrying to the office and doing a powerpoint slide show, we decide we would try to take the first step to validate that idea so we turned the car around, drove down to santa cruz we both lived. I went to a used music store and bought a little music cd. I think it was patsy cline. We went next door, bought a little gift envelope
Series of books on the president s and i said, arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. And he said i want you to do one thing. Allen evans have done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him. I knew he was a tennesseean and im a tennesseean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old homeplace in columbia is preserved and i had been there many times and have been there since. But i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. His reputation was the result of what was to him during his presidency over the mexicanamerican war. Left him a bad reputation. A reputation as a warmonger. And the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great deal of the att
We went next door and bought a gift in below. We mailed it. The next day, when he picked me up, he had an unbroken cd in an envelope that had gotten to his house. I think that was the moment. To where were you carpooling . He was the founder of a company. It was a big, geeky Software Company. It acquired the Software Company i was working out. I went to work for him. We spent about nine months working together. We lived in the same town. We spent those nine months carpooling together. Then lightning struck. The company was going to be acquired. We were going to be out of a job. I decided this was perfect. I would start my next company. He wanted to keep a hand in this entrepreneurial thing. E agreed that i would start he would be the biggest financial backer. All we needed was an idea. That led to these crazy car rides. We brainstormed everything we could think of. Where did the title come from . It is a quote for my wife. And also from thousands of other people i told the idea. Idea.