Kevin Nakao: The word intrapreneur was first coined
by Pacific Northwesterner Gifford Pinchot III, grandson of the
first Chief of the United States Forest Service, who popularized the
term in his best-selling book “Why
You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur."
According to Pinchot, Intrapreneurs are those people within a
corporation who turn an idea into a profitable finished product through
assertive risk-taking and innovation.
Seattle is home to a number of startups and corporations alike, the most successful of which leverage intrapreneurism to foster innovation and bring products to market efficiently. I have been lucky in that intrapreneurship has played a fulfilling role in my professional life at both the startups and mid and large-sized corporations that I have worked for.
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Author: Kevin Nakao
