Getting Smart Podcast What If the Era of AI is Really the Era of Youth Entrepreneurship? | Don Wettrick
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Apr 2, 2025 Don Wettrick, CEO of the StartEdUp Foundation, champions entrepreneurial education by transforming high school students into proactive problem solvers. He discusses leveraging AI to enhance opportunity recognition and design thinking skills. Wettrick emphasizes entrepreneurship as a universal skill set useful across various careers. He highlights the Innovate Within pitch competition, which encourages tackling real-world problems and the creation of innovation hubs in schools. His insights inspire young entrepreneurs to engage in meaningful challenges and foster community connections.
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Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI
- Entrepreneurship involves identifying problems and opportunities, developing solutions, and creating value.
- AI tools enhance opportunity recognition, design thinking, and impactful execution, accelerating the need for entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship as Problem-Solving
- Education boils down to solving interesting problems and demonstrating leadership to implement solutions.
- Entrepreneurship involves identifying a problem and finding a way to fix it.
Be a Seeker and Peeker
- Become opportunity seekers who listen to complaints and find solutions, like "peekers" anticipating future trends.
- Cultivate the ability to seek opportunities, which is synonymous with entrepreneurship.
