He Went From Selling Pandora For $3.5 Billion To Eliminating The Checkout Process For Shoppers
Will Glaser knows a few things about building and scaling companies and solving hard problems. You might even consider him the godfather of digital music. Soon, you’ll probably be using his technology every day if you aren’t already. Will and I recently recorded a new episode of the DealMakers podcast together. We talked about emerging technologies, fundraising for startups, patents, and new ways to think about selecting and pitching investors.
Will Glaser knows a few things about building and scaling companies and solving hard problems. You might even consider him the godfather of digital music. Soon, you’ll probably be using his technology every day if you aren’t already.
Will and I recently recorded a new episode of the DealMakers podcast together. We talked about emerging technologies, fundraising for startups, patents, and new ways to think about selecting and pitching investors.
Listen to the full podcast episode and review the transcript here.
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- 1. Magic Vs. Math
- 2. Return To The Valley
- 3. It’s Obvious Now
- 4. Ready To Be Founderized?
- 5. Retail Innovation
Magic Vs. Math
For someone who seems to very much embody magical success, Will Glaser is a very common sense thinker. He just happens to think a lot about things on a scale and timeline most don’t.
Glaser was born and raised in Berkeley. A community of independent thinkers and very smart people. His father was a physics and microbiology professor at the university. For Will, that meant getting away from his dad’s shadow when it came time for college. So, he headed for the East Coast and got into Cornell.
One wasn’t enough of a challenge, so he went for a triple major. Physics for fun and figuring out how the world works. Computer science for making a living. Mathematics for a versatile toolset for making everything else happen.
All of these subjects clearly revolve around problem-solving. There wasn’t much mystery growing up for Will. His parents could answer all the questions the other kids had, in detail. They taught him to find people with the answers and how to figure out the rest.
These are the principles on which this entrepreneur has built some of the most notable and influential companies and technologies we have today.
For two decades, his dinner table conversations with his scientist dad often revolved around the projects his father should take on. He chose those which were so difficult that they probably couldn’t be done. Yet, if he could do it, it would make new progress on the scientific frontier.
For Will, the entrepreneur, it became about choosing a problem so hard most people except him couldn’t do it. Problems that would also make good financial and business sense.
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