Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Episode 9: Congress, Platform Entrepreneurship, and Silicon Valley with Special Guest Dr. Ted Ladd
In this episode of the Business Theologist Podcast, the host interviews special guest, Dr. Ted Ladd. During this dialogue, the Curtis Merriweather, Jr. discusses Ted's Congressional Race, Platform Entrepreneurship, and his experience in Silicon Valley.
Dr. Ted Ladd is a professor of entrepreneurship at Hult International Business School, teaching strategy and economics to graduate students in San Francisco. He is also an instructor at Harvard University and the Copenhagen Business School. His research optimizes methods for designing business models for new ventures, and has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and several academic journals and conferences.
He has participated in five high-tech, venture-capital-backed startups, primarily focused on mobile electronics. The most recent, where Ted created an ecosystem of developers, resellers, and technology vendors, was acquired by Google as the foundation of Android Wear, which powers smartwatches and other gadgets in the Internet of Things.
He holds a PhD in management from Case Western Reserve, an MBA in entrepreneurship from Wharton at UPenn, an MA with honors in international economics from SAIS at Johns Hopkins, and a BA cum laude in biology, government, and technical sociology from Cornell.
He sits on several public and private boards, mostly relating to economic development in his home state of Wyoming. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in the Philippines, multiple research grants from the National Science Foundation, and four “Best Professor of the Program” titles over the last two years at Hult.
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