Philip Rosedale – Founder of Second Life

Show Notes:

Philip Rosedale, Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity.

• Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Inc.
• Second Life is a virtual world, and in his current work, he wants to continue to build a digital version of everything
• Internet interactions moving towards connecting people in a better way
• High Fidelity focuses on how to use technology to decrease the latency between people in online conversations
• Improving avatar conversations to show real communication movements to make it more similar to face-to-face conversations
• Building Second Life: wanted to create a big empty space where people could come and build things together
• Always had entrepreneurial skills, and waited to start Second Life when the technology was good enough to create this virtual world
• It took years for people’s use of Second Life to evolve and set off, so expect projects to need to take time to take off, and may take a lot of money

Philip Rosedale is the Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity.

Philip shares the advice he would have given himself back when he started Second Life and the unshakable belief that an entrepreneur needs to have, along with the patience to not know “when” the idea will take off, when starting a company.