Madison Maxey's guest appearances

Madison Maxey

Fashion Is Your Business - a retail technology podcast

Curious Minds at Work

Electric Runway Podcast

David Smith

Chris Guillebeau

David Epstein

Laura Vanderkam

Cal Newport

Chris Bailey

Nir Eyal

Donna Hicks

Adam Grant

Judson Brewer

Seth Godin

Kristin Neff

Sean Young

Jocelyn Glei

James Clear

OwlTail

New York-based Madison Maxey is a creative technologist and entrepreneur pioneering the future of fabric. Her design Studio, the Crated, just won an award from Topshop to integrate electronic circuits into textiles.

Electric Runway Episode 32: Madison Maxey: Hacking Fabrics for the Future

At 16, Madison Maxey was the youngest to intern at Tommy Hilfiger. Shortly after that, she founded her company, The Crated, a product innovation studio focused on second-generation wearable technology. Then, she went to college, like she was supposed to do.But for Maddy, there was a disconnect between the feelings that she received from her work and sitting in college classes.So after one semester of college, she dropped out to accept a Thiel Fellowship. Since then her work has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, and New York Magazine, and she has provided wearable tech insights to the likes of the White House and Google. She has been named a founder to watch by Women 2.0 and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Assembly and an Artist in Residence at Autodesk. This week, in a special edition of Curious Minds, I share interviews with four young people, ages 18-22, each of whom decided either to drop out or never attend college, in order to pursue work that mattered to them. Each is either a current or past recipient of a Thiel Fellowship, a program founded in 2011 by Peter Thiel to encourage young people to sidestep college and a traditional life path, in order to chart their own course as entrepreneurs.In this episode you will hear Madison talk about: 	innovations in wearable technology 	what motivated her to learn programming 	why she dropped out of college after one semester 	her eagerness to be a Thiel Fellow 	her passion for costume design and design optimization 	what her parents thought about her decision to drop out of college  	her policy of You Do You 	the importance of finding your tribe 	how communication skills inform her work 	her work in relation to the Maker Movement 	how uncertainty is a natural part of innovation 	why young people should be working on projects right now 	how she had to learn the skills of time management 	her curiosity about teamwork, collaboration, and community in relation to a goalEpisode LinksDigital FabricationTextile CircuitsGeneral AssemblyAutodeskComputational Design3D CNC MachineWorkflowsArduinoEnabling TechnologiesNathan Wolfe TEDTalkIf you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening!

At 16, Madison Maxey was the youngest to intern at Tommy Hilfiger. Shortly after that, she founded her company, The Crated, a product innovation studio focused on second-generation wearable technology. Then, she went to college, like she was supposed to do. But for Maddy, there was a disconnect between the feelings that she received from her work and sitting in college <a href="http://classes.So" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">classes.So</a> after one semester of college, she dropped out to accept a Thiel Fellowship. Since then her work has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, and New York Magazine, and she has provided wearable tech insights to the likes of the White House and Google. She has been named a founder to watch by Women 2.0 and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Assembly and an Artist in Residence at Autodesk. This week, in a special edition of Curious Minds, I share interviews with four young people, ages 18-22, each of whom decided either to drop out or never attend college, in order to pursue work that mattered to them. Each is either a current or past recipient of a Thiel Fellowship, a program founded in 2011 by Peter Thiel to encourage young people to sidestep college and a traditional life path, in order to chart their own course as entrepreneurs. In this episode you will hear Madison talk about: 	innovations in wearable technology 	what motivated her to learn programming 	why she dropped out of college after one semester 	her eagerness to be a Thiel Fellow 	her passion for costume design and design optimization 	what her parents thought about her decision to drop out of college 	her policy of You Do You 	the importance of finding your tribe 	how communication skills inform her work 	her work in relation to the Maker Movement 	how uncertainty is a natural part of innovation 	why young people should be working on projects right now 	how she had to learn the skills of time management 	her curiosity about teamwork, collaboration, and community in relation to a goal Episode Links Digital Fabrication Textile Circuits General Assembly Autodesk Computational Design 3D CNC Machine Workflows Arduino Enabling Technologies Nathan Wolfe TEDTalk If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening!

CM 012: Thiel Fellow Madison Maxey on Making and Design