The third stop of the Des Moines Partnership’s Summer Startup Tour merged the tech world with the art world and was a good reminder we all share the same world.
My past career called them pirates and disruptors but in this life they’re referred to as entrepreneurs: those creators who believe so deeply in what they’re meant to make that there’s no other option than to bring it to life. As an artist, I know this feeling in my core — proof that we’re made of the same stuff.
Whether it’s an app that scales and the infrastructure required to iterate toward what’s next or it’s the world’s next best composer crafting his score for a new ballet, this is how the magic happens. We get in and out of our comfort zones. We listen to both the voices within and those we’ve never been open to before. We bring in the inputs to make the outputs beautiful, better, smarter. We shuffle and share, find the connective tissue in connecting and every once in a while, we get out of our own bubble and agree to learn about someone else’s.
