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redditÌýco-founder interviews À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµâ€™s dean of engineering and alumni about entrepreneurship and co-op education at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ
redditÌýco-founder interviews À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµâ€™s dean of engineering and alumni about entrepreneurship and co-op education at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ
By Staff Marketing and Strategic CommunicationsStartup founder and investor liked what he saw when he came to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ last year on his book tour. This year he’s back with his show,Ìý, to find out why À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ is such a hub for entrepreneurship.
In theÌýlatest episode, , the reddit co-founder asks engineering alumni Michael Litt,ÌýDevonÌýGallowayÌýand Tyler CampaigneÌýabout how they built , a successful video marketing platform. He also asks Dean of Engineering Pearl Sullivan about À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµâ€™s co-operative education program and how its unique intellectual property policy supports entrepreneurship at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.
Sullivan told Ohanian: "When you know you own the intellectual property, you have freedom. . . You have the freedom to build it and the freedom to know you can walk away with it. It gives students the confidence to walk out of here and start a company. This is really good for the nation. It’s really good for the economy.â€
Galloway told Ohanian that he hopes Vidyard will continue to grow and become a “really great technology powerhouse. We do it for the team members. We do it for Kitchener-À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. We do it for Canada and we do it because we’re just really passionate about what we’re building.â€
Ohanian tells viewer at the end of the episode that the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ has it right when it grants inventors ownership of intellectual property. “Instead of obsessing about every idea in the head of their students, (À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ) gives them freedom to go off and create amazing things that only benefit the university long term.â€
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