{"id":926,"date":"2013-12-06T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2015-03-01T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T20:38:15","slug":"interviewing-pascal-finette-serial-entrepreneur-working-on-the-future-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/interviewing-pascal-finette-serial-entrepreneur-working-on-the-future-of-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing Pascal Finette (Serial Tech Entrepreneur &#038; VC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>If you\u2019re not a risk taker, you shouldn\u2019t be an entrepreneur.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/JNb8S&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;If you\u2019re not a risk taker, you shouldn\u2019t be an entrepreneur.&quot;\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Pascal Finette loves technology and holds the belief that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. As the Portfolio Manager at Google Giving, Google&#8217;s strategic philanthropy initiative, annually investing in best-in-breed organizations that use technology to change the world, he loves to work at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship &amp; global impact. Formerly the Creator and Director of Mozilla&#8217;s Open Innovation Group, he and his team worked toward inventing the future of the Web. Prior to Mozilla, Pascal led eBay&#8217;s Platform Solutions Group, consulted many entrepreneurs on their strategy &amp; operations, and invested into startups, among other things. He frequently speaks about Open Innovation on the Web and mentors entrepreneurs at TechStars, Seedcamp, The Unreasonable Institute, and many other places.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\"><p>If you want to change the world, you&#8217;ve got to take risks.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/JNb8S&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;If you want to change the world, you've got to take risks.&quot;\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Pascal Finette, Portfolio Manager at Google Giving divulges his secrets of mustering the courage to take risks that could result in failure, how to keep the main thing the main thing and why your numbers are bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":17973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1785,1511,1517,216,1515,1516],"tags":[1396,331,366,290,690,278,383,359,245,355],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boldness","category-failure","category-full_interview","category-interviews","category-leadership","category-starting-up","tag-boldness","tag-innovation","tag-interview","tag-leadership","tag-finette","tag-productivity","tag-starting","tag-tech","tag-values","tag-vid","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interviewing Pascal Finette (Serial Tech Entrepreneur &amp; 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