Name: 【TED】Paul Tasner: How I became an entrepreneur at 66 (How I became an entrepreneur at 66 | Paul Tasner)
Uploaded: 2017-12-26T17:11:14.000Z
Duration: 6 min 58 s
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I'd like to take you back about seven years in my life.

I was the director of operations at a consumer products company in San Francisco,

and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress.

That meeting turned out to be my exit interview.

who was waiting for me at a nearby restaurant,

So, 40 plus years of continuous employment

for a variety of companies, large and small,

I had a good a network, a good reputation --

I was an engineer in manufacturing and packaging.

So I turned to consulting for the next couple of years

born from my concern for our environment.

designing and manufacturing biodegradable packaging from waste --

paper, agricultural, even textile waste --

replacing the toxic, disposable plastic packaging

A venture that could help to reduce the billions of pounds

of single-use plastic packaging dumped each year

and polluting our land, our rivers and our oceans,

and left for future generations to resolve --

I became an entrepreneur for the very first time.

manufacturing, outsourcing, job creation,

these are all typical issues for a start-up,

you are typically going to compete with some very young people

and it can be very discouraging and intimidating.

I have shoes older than most of these people.

that our revenues have doubled every year,

who's been with me right from the beginning,

and we've won more than 20 awards for the work that we've done.

in the worldwide plastic pollution crisis.

And I am doing the most rewarding and meaningful work of my life right now.

I can tell you there's lots of resources available to entrepreneurs of all ages,

but what I really yearned for five years ago

was to find other first-time entrepreneurs who were my age.

That 20-something app developer from Silicon Valley

and I want all of us to do something about that.

about people who don't become entrepreneurs until they are seniors.

Talking about these bold men and women who are checking in

when their peers, in essence, are checking out.

And then connecting all these people across industries, across regions,

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