Ted Turner Talks about Business and Energy
Ted Turner, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, spoke to a packed audience at Colorado Law yesterday as the featured entrepreneur, presented by Silicon Flatirons Center, ATLAS, and ITP. Before the interview, Dean Getches presented Turner with Colorado Law’s inaugural “Entrepreneurs for Good Prize.”
During the interviewed led by Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurship Director Professor Brad Bernthal, Turner spoke about working for his father’s advertising billboard business, the risk of starting a 24-hour news channel at CNN, and the Time-Warner mergers.
Turner also discussed his new environmental mission and told the audience that if he were looking for a job today, it would be in “clean, renewable energy,” predicting that it will be a growth industry. He is lobbying Congress to get a clean energy bill through before a December global conference.
Throughout his career, Ted Turner has received recognition for his entrepreneurial acumen, sharp business skills, leadership qualities, and his unprecedented philanthropy. Whether in billboard advertisement, cable television, sports team ownership, sailing, environmental initiatives or philanthropy—Turner's vision, determination, generosity, and forthrightness have consistently given the world reason to take notice. Turner holds many titles: co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; chairman of the Turner Foundation, Inc., which supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect the earth's climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates; chairman of the United Nations Foundation, which promotes a more peaceful, prosperous and just world; chairman of Turner Enterprises, Inc., a private company, which manages his business interests, land holdings and investments, including the oversight of two million acres in 12 states and in Argentina, and more than 50,000 bison head; and partner in the Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain, which operates more than 55 locations nationwide.
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| Dean Getches, Ted Turner, Professor Brad Bernthal |
