Click Your Fortune #3: Inspiration - Jennifer Indovina
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0:05 - 0:07When Tenrehte was first getting off the ground,
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0:07 - 0:10we entered our prototype PICOwatt
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0:10 - 0:13into a competition associated with CES,
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0:13 - 0:14Consumer Electronics Show,
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0:14 - 0:16the world's biggest industry trade show.
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0:16 - 0:20And we built the prototype in my dad's basement.
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0:20 - 0:22We had no idea if it was actually going to work
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0:22 - 0:26on stage at a live demo for CES judges.
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0:26 - 0:28And the product, when we flew it to Arizona,
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0:28 - 0:29it wasn't working right off the bat.
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0:29 - 0:31We were fixing software
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0:31 - 0:32and changing it at the last minute.
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0:32 - 0:34And I got a sinus infection on the plane,
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0:34 - 0:36and I had to get up on stage
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0:36 - 0:37and do the demo anyway.
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0:37 - 0:39And I was holding on to my phone
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0:39 - 0:40to demo that the PICOwatt
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0:40 - 0:42would turn lights on and off on stage,
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0:42 - 0:44and I had no idea if it was going to work or not,
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0:44 - 0:46but I was hoping that it was.
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0:46 - 0:48And when I pressed on,
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0:48 - 0:49the light turned on,
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0:49 - 0:50and the product worked,
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0:50 - 0:51and it was just this serendipitous moment
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0:51 - 0:53between me and my partner Carlos
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0:53 - 0:56when the product worked live when it had to
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0:56 - 0:58in front of a huge stage,
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0:58 - 1:00you know, with a huge audience
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1:00 - 1:01and tons of judges.
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1:01 - 1:04And I think it was at that moment
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1:04 - 1:06I really knew we weren't just playing around
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1:06 - 1:07with a start-up company,
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1:07 - 1:09that we could actually do this.
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1:09 - 1:10We could build products.
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1:10 - 1:11We could get it out there
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1:11 - 1:13and that people would appreciate what we were doing.
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- Title:
- Click Your Fortune #3: Inspiration - Jennifer Indovina
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Francis de los Reyes III: Professor, Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Deena Gornick: Executive Coach
Jennifer Indovina: TED Fellow; CEO, Tenrehte Technologies
Daniel Suarez: TED Speaker; Author; Senior Systems Analyst - Video Language:
- English
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- Duration:
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