Episode #104: Sean Ammirati on the Science of Growth

By June 22, 2016Blog, Leadership, Podcast

Episode #104: Sean Ammirati on The Science of Growth

Sean Ammirati
Sean’s Talk

This episode comes to you from our special event series. We had the privilege of hosting a special event with Sean Ammirati. Sean is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist and Professor.  He’s built and sold his own businesses and now he spends his time helping others grow theirs. One of his companies was acquired by LinkedIN. He’s also a professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon. I’ve interviewed Sean for the Podcast before in episode #96 & #97. I’ll include a link to that in the show notes.

We broke Sean’s talk into two parts, in this, you’ll hear his talk from his new book: The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster and Nine Other Star-ups left the rest in the dust! What I love about this book:

  • It’s backed up by research
  • Sean’s lived it
  • It gives you an action plan for your business.
In episode #105, we’ll put up our Question and Answer Session with Sean!

In this episode, we talk about Sean’s book, The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster and Nine Other Star-ups left the rest in the dust!

 

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What I love about this book:

  • It’s backed up by research
  • Sean’s lived it
  • It gives you an action plan for your business.

Links Mentioned in this Post:

Sean’s Bio:

Sean Ammirati joined Birchmere Ventures in 2012 to as the partner leading Birchmere Labs, a seed and studio fund focused on community driven commerce startups.

Prior to that, he had over 12 years founding, building and selling businesses in the media and software industries. Sean was previously Chief Operating Officer of ReadWriteWeb, one of the most influential sites about the future of technology and innovation. In December 2011, the company was acquired by SAY Media to strengthen its technology channel. Sean was previously co-founder and CEO of mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn.

Sean is currently an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University. He also was a founding advisor to Innovation Works’ AlphaLab accelerator. He holds a B.S. in computer information systems from Grove City College and was a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon’s Sloan Software Industry Center.


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