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