Josh Linkner, Serial Entrepreneur, Best Selling Author and Chairman of Platypus Labs, shares stories of innovators who have taken small everyday ideas and turned them into clever solutions that made a meaningful impact. He also shares how we all have the potential to be inventive and how to build creative solutions to problems we encounter in the world. 

In this episode we also discuss:

• Tips for writing your first book and the process Josh followed for his latest best seller
• What Josh looks for in companies and startup leaders his VC firm invests in
• Why “mentors” can extend further than just being positive role models 

Guest Bio: 

Josh Linkner passionately believes that all human beings have incredible creative capacity, and he’s on a mission to unlock inventive thinking and creative problem solving. 

Josh has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million and is the author of four books including the New York Times Best Sellers, Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention. He has helped launch over 100 startups and is the Founding Partner of Detroit Venture Partners.

Today, Josh serves as Chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research, training, and consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award.

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About this Show:

Digital transformation expert, Mark Russell, speaks with true Catalyzers – the people who drive change in positive, profound and meaningful ways. If you aspire to be courageous, to do things differently, or to change things for the better, this must-hear podcast will inspire you with stories and actionable takeaways so you, too, can become a Catalyzer.

Hosted by: Mark Russell