Where You Go to School Doesn't Matter With Vivek Wadhwa, author [re-release]

Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author of five best-selling books including: From Incremental to Exponential; Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain— as well as The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future. He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and has held appointments as Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, Carnegie Mellon University, and Emory University. He got a B.A. in Computer Science from Canberra University in Australia and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

Why your college major and degree from Ivy Leagues don’t count anymore instead: it’s what you know, how well you know it and how well you learn.
Why you need to learn to love learning because if you don’t, you will be unemployed
How, anyone, anywhere can build world-changing technology
Why technology is now a basic skill T4C Java Junkies need to learn just like reading, writing and math
How research Vivek led showed that among 652 US-born CEOs/heads of product engineering at 502 tech companies: 92% hold BAs & only 2% hold degrees in mathematics
How turning art into science is easy, but turning science into art is not and why we need to learn how to do it
If you want to learn how to break into disruptive tech check out T4C Espresso Shots episode #28

Where You Go to School Doesn’t Matter With Vivek Wadhwa, author [re-release]