PHILIP KIRACOFE: Failure Club
Channel: IgniteNYC
Date: 2012-12-02

The Failure Club was created as a transformational, life-altering, book club-like support group to provide a formalized structure in the pursuit of mastery in 'failure'.  The Failure Club is support group of individuals  inspired by the desire to push beyond their perceived boundaries.  In The Failure Club, members learn to defy the fears associated with 'failure' by pursuing seemingly impossible goals that they set for themselves. From the outset, failure is not only a highly probable outcome, it is the desired outcome. Only through embracing the reality of failure can its' societal stigmas be stripped away and replaced with an inspirational alternative.

Over the last 20 years, Philip has launched a pioneer online grocery service, the first large scale social networking site, a  venture incubator fund, a construction firm, and a social venture to promote mountain biking in Haiti.
https://twitter.com/pkiracofe 
http://failureclub.org

This talk took place at the Ignite NYC 14 event, "Fails, Facepalms and Spinouts: Stories from the Other Side of Failure" event. 5 minutes and 20 slides rotating automatically in front of NYC's brightest geeks, what would you say? For nearly two years Ignite NYC has cultivated a vibrant community of artists, technologists, thinkers, tinkerers, and personalities to connect, develop new relationships and projects, and answer this challenge. Enlighten us, but make it quick!

Wanna see the slides?
http://www.slideshare.net/ignitenyc/philip-kirakofe