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Matthew Milan has spent the last 20 years solving tough software innovation challenges for a wide range of organizations. The team at Normative, a company he co-founded in Toronto Canada, has launched major products in financial services, location technology, healthcare and digital video. He focuses on integrating evidence-driven innovation techniques with a customer development mindset. 1:08 Matthew shares his childhood with homeschooled siblings and his own school experience3:30 university changed his perspective on how to learn4:30 how the experience his daughter Sora had in school began their journey into homeschooling and unschooling6:20 how they found Galileo and why they joined7:10 his company's greatest challenge when hiring people8:00 Matthew addresses what he calls "entrepreneurial privilege"10:10 how his company Normative uses their strategies to show companies how to scale to future states12:20 are entrepreneurs born or made?13:24 putting his kids into risky and ambiguous environments to build their creativity15:16 the mindset of an entrepreneur16:30 what about choice? How does it play in?18:40 Galileo's approach is filled with options and how that approach helps his daughter21:39 highlighting his daughter's self-directed learning is more "OKRs" (Objectives and Key Results)22:10 how we need people that can think differently and school isn't structured in a way that 'different thinkers' can thrive23:16 how his younger daughter had learned skills at Galileo that he uses in his own business and the surprising result
