EP13: Facebook LIVE creator Randi Zuckerberg on Hack-a-thons & being a creative entrepreneur!

Randi Zuckerberg - creator of Facebook LIVE, Facebook Fan Pages (and countless other Facebook products), CEO/Founder of Zuckerberg Media, host of Dot Complicated on SiriusXM radio, visionary behind Sue’s Tech Kitchen, and NYT best selling author of 4 books including most recently, “Pick Three” talks about how Facebook LIVE was created during a creative exercise called Hack-a-thons, and how "we take a lot of time to nurture other aspects of health and emotional well being, and not enough time to exercise creativity." Randi is a major force and advocate for woman in business and fostering young girls interest in science and technology. Her movement and influence is growing with the support of her media company Zuckerberg Media which produces content and creates characters that girls can identify with (such as Dot) as well as bringing new ideas to make tech fun for children and families (Sue’s Tech Kitchen). She mentions that we’re all creative but it gets beaten out of us in school, at work, etc. and that we need to give people permission to be creative. A great example of this; her team at Facebook was called, “Consumer Marketing”. No one knew what it really meant. Being the one to create and spearhead many ideas (Facebook Fan pages) she became the "go-to" for all things creative. She realized it couldn’t scale with her involved in all the brainstorming meetings, so she changed name to “CREATIVE Marketing” which 10X’d everyones ideas and made her team more creative! Reference links: Randi’s Companies: Zuckerberg Media https://www.zuckerbergmedia.com Sue’s Tech Kitchen https://www.suestechkitchen.com Listen to Randi’s show: Dot Complicated http://dotcomplicated.co/content/ Watch Randi’s animated series: Dot https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPZ40gM7aDFCKXlcMZlh1B_kwTeWENZTX Randi’s social: Instagram: @randizuckerberg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/randi Twitter: @randizuckerberg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randizuckerberg/ Read Randi’s books! Pick Three: You Can Have it All (Just Not Every Day) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006284282X?pf_rd_p=c2945051-950f-485c-b4df-15aac5223b10&pf_rd_r=NFYHEPXKYE41Q8G0GD45 Dot Complicated https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EJRRIQ4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2 Missy President https://www.amazon.com/Missy-President-1-Randi-Zuckerberg/dp/0692794840/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1543173170&sr=8-5&keywords=Randi+Zuckerberg