Summary: How can we convince people to bet on us? It happens all the time -- getting hired, landing an investment in our startup and even people the people who we convince to date or eventually marry us! For President Obama's first Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, he'd assumed politics was his path and ran for Lt. Governor of Virginia... but he lost. Hoping to break into startups, he soon realized he'd need to raise big bucks to attack the huge problems he saw in the health care sector. So what could a lifetime policy wonk and government bureaucrat do to get cofounders, VCs and employees to bet on him? Eric talks with Aneesh about his time in the White House -- including being coined "The Indian George Clooney" by John Stewart on the Daily Show -- and how sometimes what we create is often just as important as what we've done to get others to bet on us. Eric shows how making a bet on ourselves can help us learn where to go, and offer powerful evidence to others we hope to influence.
