{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"20: Linda Rottenberg | Crazy is a Compliment","description":"Named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News and one of TIME’s 100 “Innovators for the 21st century,” Linda Rottenberg is considered one of the world’s most dynamic experts on entrepreneurship, innovation, emerging markets, and leadership. A frequent lecturer at Fortune 500 companies, Rottenberg has been the subject of four case studies by Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.\r\nDell featured her in its “Take Your Own Path” advertising campaign; Veuve Clicquot named her Businesswoman of the Year; and Tom Friedman dubbed her the world’s “mentor capitalist” in The World Is Flat.\r\nLinda is the CEO and co-founder of Endeavor, the first organization focusing on the “scale-up” not “start-up” phase of entrepreneurship, which people are now recognizing is the key to job creation. Headquartered in New York with 20 affiliates around the world, Endeavor selects, mentors, and co-invests in business innovators demonstrating the greatest potential to go big. Since 1997, Endeavor has screened 39,000 candidates and handpicked 1,000 entrepreneurs who’ve created 400,000 jobs and generate over $6 billion annually.\r\nA graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Rottenberg is a member of YPO, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Economic Forum. She also serves on the board of Zayo Group, a global provider of bandwidth infrastructure. Rottenberg has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, The Economist, Strategy + Business, People, MORE, and the Financial Times, and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and Bloomberg. In 2011, Business Insider dubbed her “Ms. Davos.”\r\nA native of Newton, MA, Rottenberg lives in Brooklyn with her husband, bestselling author and New York Times columnist Bruce Feiler, and their identical twin daughters.\r\nHer book, "Crazy Is A Compliment", was published by Penguin Random House in October 2014.\r\nWebsite: www.lindarottenberg.com and www.endeavor.org\r\nLinked In: Linda Rottenberg\r\nTwitter: @lindarottenberg\r\n-------\r\nVISIT:\r\nwww.progress-not-perfection.com\r\nSPREAD THE WORD:\r\nIf you liked this episode, please subscribe in iTunes and WRITE A REVIEW. This is what helps make the podcast easily accessible to those who could benefit from it.\r\nGET NEW EPISODES DELIVERED TO YOUR PHONE:\r\nDownload the Podcasts app and subscribe to the progress-not-perfection podcast to have new episodes delivered directly to your phone.\r\nFEEDBACK:\r\nIf you want to bounce any ideas off me, provide show feedback, or guest recommendations, email me at zaid@progress-not-perfection.com.   ","author_name":"progress-not-perfection","author_url":"http:\/\/www.progress-not-perfection.com","html":"