Two videos
Sep. 19th, 2007 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertango...both from the archive at TED.com
First up, John Doerr. Doerr is a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and made upwards of $1 billion picking dot-com stars like Amazon, Google, Compaq and Netscape. (He also picked some flops, like Go Corporation and the scandal-ridden MyCFO.com.) Given that kind of corporate background, what he has to say is all the more remarkable, even if the individual items are no surprise.
Next, Wade Davis. Davis is an ethnobotanist, a co-founder of Cultures On the Edge, and a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. His topic is the "ethnosphere" -- and how it's shrinking.
(I tired to put in the code for the embedded video players from TED, but while they showed up OK in Preview, they got stripped out -- all code gone -- once I posted. Weird. LJ usually isn't that aggressive.)
First up, John Doerr. Doerr is a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and made upwards of $1 billion picking dot-com stars like Amazon, Google, Compaq and Netscape. (He also picked some flops, like Go Corporation and the scandal-ridden MyCFO.com.) Given that kind of corporate background, what he has to say is all the more remarkable, even if the individual items are no surprise.
Next, Wade Davis. Davis is an ethnobotanist, a co-founder of Cultures On the Edge, and a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. His topic is the "ethnosphere" -- and how it's shrinking.
(I tired to put in the code for the embedded video players from TED, but while they showed up OK in Preview, they got stripped out -- all code gone -- once I posted. Weird. LJ usually isn't that aggressive.)
