The Millennial Entrepreneur and a Serial Entrepreneur on Building a Fail-Safe Startup

Today we are delighted to have Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of The Fail-Safe Startup. Interviewing him today is a friend and fellow from the Elevating Founders network and cohort, Sina Sadrzadeh.

Tom and Sina discuss how important innovation is to drive economic growth post pandemic, why the hypergrowth that VCs push for isn’t always sustainable and dispels the myth that listening to your gut is the right thing to do.

Tom breaks down some key takeaways from the book including why startups fail, what defines failure and when you should break away from the herd.

Resources:

The Fail-Safe Startup (penguin.co.uk)

Twitter: @teisenmann

Learn more about Sina: https://wingcard.io/themillennialentrepreneur

 

Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty co-chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1997, he has launched eleven MBA courses on a range of topics related to entrepreneurship, including The Entrepreneurial Manager, an introductory course taught to all 900 first-year MBAs and Entrepreneurial Failure, an MBA elective. Eisenmann has written over one hundred Harvard Business School Case Studies and his writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The New Statesman and The New York Times.