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# Owyang's big LeWeb bet
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/12/owyangs_big_leweb_bet/
- Published: 2013-12-21T21:41:35.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-26T16:26:49.000Z
- Description: Jeremiah Owyang has announced a huge career change. Quite a risk.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: jeremiah owyang, leweb, leweb13, risk

Wow. I felt there was a very different vibe to [Jeremiah Owyang’s talk at LeWeb](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/12/leweb%5F-%5Fmerging%5Fthe%5Fcompany%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fcrow.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) last week. [I wasn’t wrong](https://www.facebook.com/JeremiahOwyang/posts/10151862657371523):

> It was really a make-it or break-it moment, the stakes were high, and I knew it would be success or failure on a global, public stage. At the time, I was exhausted from very little sleep, emotionally drained, in a daze, jet-lagged. At the same time, I was fueled off executing off a researched plan, working with a team, a bit of French coffee, lots of adrenaline, and hope that everything was just gonna somehow work out.

That’s a hell of a way to place a huge career (and, thus, family) bet on a vision of what social media *could* be – rather than what it is now.