For 39 years, I've been starting, running, and bootstrapping companies of all sorts.

I started teaching at 14. I taught canoeing in northern Canada, computer science as an undergrad in college and business in a number of settings, including some time as one of the most highly-rated professors in the history of the Stern MBA program at NYU.

For more than a dozen years, I bootstrapped and ran a successful book company, with clients and partners that ran from Random House to Walter Dean Myers. Along the way I started a first-generation internet company (funded by Softbank and eventually sold to Yahoo). I've been in debt, grown market share, been rejected, succeeded, satisfied customers, hired, fired, dreamed, invented, started and ended...

For fun, I hang out with entrepreneurs and people who want to change the world.

Check out some of my talks online.

Seth Godin

Entrepreneur and author

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