Ryan Jacoby is the founder of MACHINE, a strategy and innovation company that helps its clients Think Big and Act Small.MACHINE helps companies big and small to grow by conceiving and designing new ventures, services, and products using the best approaches from design, business, and ventures.He's the author of Making Progress: The 7 responsibilities of innovation leadership from Sense & Respond press.Ryan has been a Venture Partner at the Collaborative Fund, a venture firm based in New York City, and taught in the IxD Masters program at the School of Visual Arts.Prior to founding his new firm, Ryan led teams and relationships at the design and innovation firm IDEO. He was a founding member and location head of the IDEO New York office and built the Business Design discipline at the firm.Ryan holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University. He is often referred to as the first “graduate” from Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Prior to IDEO, Ryan held positions at Deloitte Consulting and Hewlett-Packard.Ryan loves to read. Ryan hates to go running, but he loves to come back from running.Follow Ryan (@jacobyryan) and MACHINE (@machineio) on Twitter.