About the speaker
Over the course of his career, Bill has been an entrepreneur, consultant, executive, scholar, chef and competitive cyclist. Whatâs the âred threadâ that connects all of them together? Bill is a pattern recognizer with a love for new ideas, problem solving and story-telling. Bill has a passion for supporting others, enabling social entrepreneurship and encouraging risk-taking...one small bet at a time.
Bill was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of HUB Grand Rapids, Lead Organizer of TEDxGrandRapids 2013 and 2014, and was the founding Executive Director of ArtPrize for two and a half years while working he was working as the President of Pomegranate Studios.
Currently Bill is working as a Vice President at The Understanding Group, a consultancy focused on Information Architecture.
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Sometimes the wrong idea is really the right idea at the wrong time. Or maybe it has something to do with not having enough time.
And there was a lot of learning that went into that whole project and a lot of resources -- so we decided we were going to spend a fair amount of time and dissect all the things we had done wrong, and what we had an inkling was going right. We spent time to learn.
And as one does when they come across such a big personal realization, I gave the guys at Foo Camp a call on a Friday and said I couldn't make it. And on Monday, I quit my job.
Actually, this international community convened in Vienna, and they talked about Grand Rapids as a place where great things could happen, and they said yes. That's freakin' awesome.
I don't really like the conversation I hear our community talking about around failure -- I believe that we're framing it incorrectly.
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