Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

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Each week, experienced entrepreneurs and innovators come to Stanford University to candidly share lessons they’ve learned while developing, launching and scaling disruptive ideas. The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series is produced by Stanford eCorner during fall, winter and spring quarters.


Episode Date
Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri (Pair Eyewear) - From Stanford Students to Co-CEOs
Mar 13, 2024
Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Mar 06, 2024
Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path
Feb 28, 2024
Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
Feb 23, 2024
Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success
Feb 14, 2024
Bonus: ETL’s Emily Ma on Move Fast and Fix the Planet
Feb 07, 2024
Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]
Jan 31, 2024
Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey
Jan 24, 2024
Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World
Dec 06, 2023
Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights
Nov 22, 2023
Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company
Nov 15, 2023
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
Nov 08, 2023
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies
Nov 01, 2023
Andrew Ng (AI Fund) - The Near Future of AI
Oct 25, 2023
Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders
Oct 18, 2023
Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’
Oct 11, 2023
Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge
Jun 07, 2023
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (Grammarly) - Responsible AI Innovation
May 31, 2023
Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe) - Scaling Operations and People
May 24, 2023
Julia Collins (Planet FWD) - Opportunities in Climate Tech
May 17, 2023
Ben Collier and James Kanoff (The Farmlink Project) - Students Solving Hunger
May 10, 2023
Frederic Kerrest (Okta) - The Truth about Entrepreneurship
May 03, 2023
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) - Inside OpenAI
Apr 26, 2023
Deb Liu (Ancestry) - The Power of Scrappiness
Apr 19, 2023
Karabo Morule (Capital Art) - African Art Activism through Fintech
Mar 15, 2023
Connie Chan (Andreessen Horowitz) - Career Advice from a VC Pro
Mar 08, 2023
Austin Russell (Luminar) - Behind the Scenes of a Mega-Unicorn
Mar 01, 2023
Emmy Sobieski (Competitive Storytelling, Inc.) - Build Wealth with Personal Skills
Feb 22, 2023
Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy) - Lessons from a Stanford Success
Feb 15, 2023
Dave Vasen (brightwheel) - Problem-Solving for a Unique Market
Feb 08, 2023
Annie Hockey (Column) - Reimagining Fintech
Feb 01, 2023
Elise Densborn (Splendid Spoon) - From Customer to Co-CEO
Jan 25, 2023
Dante Disparte (Circle) - Ethical Crypto Innovation
Dec 07, 2022
Trevor Martin (Mammoth Biosciences) and Ursheet Parikh (Mayfield) - Building Biotech to Last
Nov 23, 2022
Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) - Breaking the Venture Capital Mold
Nov 16, 2022
Jerrica Kirkley (Plume) and Kiki Freedman (Hey Jane) - Transforming Digital Healthcare
Nov 09, 2022
Lisa Dyson (Air Protein) - Changing Processes for Climate Solutions
Nov 02, 2022
Tim Brown (Allbirds) - Innovating for a Sustainable World
Oct 26, 2022
Meirav Oren (Versatile) - Forging Your Path as a New Founder
Oct 19, 2022
Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft) - Innovating Accessibly
Oct 12, 2022
Josh Makower (Stanford University) – The Biodesign Innovation Process
Jun 01, 2022
John Felts (Cruz Foam) - Engineering Green Materials
May 25, 2022
Kristen Fortney (BioAge) - Derisking Biotech
May 18, 2022
Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital) - Developing a Founder’s Mindset
May 11, 2022
Jorge Rios (Bridgefy) - Seizing Global Opportunities
May 04, 2022
Patrick Schmitt and Jenny Xia Spradling (FreeWill) - Building From Values
Apr 27, 2022
Irma Olguin, Jr. (Bitwise Industries) and Morgan Simon (Candide Group) - Innovating for Social Impact
Apr 20, 2022
Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) - Finding a Deeper Purpose
Apr 13, 2022
Russ Altman (Stanford University) & Kim Branson (GSK) - Principled Engineering: AI and Drug Development
Mar 09, 2022
Paola Santana (GLASS) - Solving for Infrastructure
Mar 02, 2022
Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital) - Cleantech 2.0
Feb 23, 2022
Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture
Feb 16, 2022
Jessica McKellar (Pilot) - Serial Co-founders
Feb 09, 2022
Josh Giegel (Virgin Hyperloop) - A Personal Mission
Feb 02, 2022
Alexandr Wang (Scale AI) - Better AI Through Better Data
Jan 26, 2022
Sara Menker and Hans Tung (Gro Intelligence and GGV Capital) - Turning Data into Action
Jan 19, 2022
James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures) - World Positive Investing
Nov 24, 2021
Juliet Anammah (Jumia Nigeria) - E-commerce in Africa
Nov 17, 2021
Daphne Koller (insitro) - Innovation in Ed-Tech and Biotech
Nov 10, 2021
Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners) - What Investors Want
Nov 03, 2021
Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code) - Fixing Tech’s Gender Gap
Oct 27, 2021
James Reinhart (thredUp) - Scaling Sustainable Fashion
Oct 20, 2021
Lynda Kate Smith (mParticle) - Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Oct 13, 2021
Justin Kan (Twitch) - Finding Fulfillment in Entrepreneurship
Oct 06, 2021
Research Insight: Entrepreneurship Education Is About More than Startup Creation
Sep 22, 2021
Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures) - The New Angel Investing
Sep 15, 2021
Jon Zieger (Responsible Technology Labs) - What is Responsible Innovation?
Sep 01, 2021
Tom Eisenmann (Harvard Business School) - Why Startups Fail
Aug 11, 2021
Nicole Diaz (Snap Inc.) - How to Build an Ethical Company
Jun 02, 2021
Jannick Malling (Public.com) - Social Fintech
May 26, 2021
Andre Iguodala (Miami Heat) and Rudy Cline-Thomas (Mastry) - Bridging the Gap Between Sports and Tech
May 19, 2021
Maëlle Gavet (Techstars) - Ruthless Empathy
May 12, 2021
Howie Liu (Airtable) - Building Startups, Fast and Slow
May 05, 2021
Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures) - Diverse Businesses Are Better Businesses
Apr 28, 2021
Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare) - Scaling with Resilience
Apr 21, 2021
Othman Laraki (Color) - It’s All About Access
Apr 14, 2021
Research Insight: New Data on Lean Startup
Mar 24, 2021
Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst) - Build, Don’t Break
Mar 17, 2021
Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation
Mar 10, 2021
Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix) - Making Entrepreneurship More Inclusive
Mar 03, 2021
David Rogier (MasterClass) - Finding the Right Motivation
Feb 24, 2021
Vlad Tenev (Robinhood) - Weathering a Storm
Feb 17, 2021
Stephanie Lampkin (Blendoor) - Data-Powered Diversity
Feb 10, 2021
Tony Mugavero (Rad) - Hype vs. Reality in VR
Feb 03, 2021
Alyssa Ravasio (Hipcamp) - A New Approach to the Great Outdoors
Jan 27, 2021
2020 Insight: Start with Just One Thing
Jan 06, 2021
2020 Insight: Connecting the Dots
Dec 23, 2020
2020 Insight: A Lens of Racial Equity
Dec 16, 2020
2020 Insight: Infusing Decisions with Principles
Dec 09, 2020
2020 Insight: Innovating at a Distance
Dec 03, 2020
Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities
Nov 18, 2020
Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - The Language of Technology
Nov 11, 2020
Jessica Norwood (RUNWAY) and Rodney Sampson (OHUB) - Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice
Nov 04, 2020
Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santi Subotovksy (Emergence Capital) - Winning a Crowded Market
Oct 28, 2020
Sylvia Acevedo (Path to the Stars) - Perseverance Creates Opportunity
Oct 21, 2020
George Scangos (Vir Biotechnology) - Making a Difference in Biotech
Oct 14, 2020
Delane Parnell (PlayVS) - Extreme Focus
Oct 07, 2020
Shellye Archambeau (Verizon) - Taking Risks and Breaking Barriers
Sep 30, 2020
Adam Pisoni (Abl) - Innovating for Equity
Sep 02, 2020
Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) - Disruption and Abundance
Aug 26, 2020
Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Change Moves at the Speed of Trust
Aug 19, 2020
Kevin Weil (Novi) - Improving Product Design
Aug 12, 2020
Amy Chang (Cisco) - Networking with Curiosity
Aug 05, 2020
Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Empowering Girls with STEM
Jul 29, 2020
Jeff Seibert (Digits) - Making Remote Work Better
Jul 22, 2020
Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - Cultivate Creativity and Courage
Jul 15, 2020
Beverly Parenti & Chris Redlitz (The Last Mile) and Ray Harts (Healthy Hearts Institute) - Growing a Social Venture
Jul 08, 2020
Joe DeSimone (Carbon) - The Case for Convergence
Jul 01, 2020
Julie Zhuo (Inspirit) - How to Learn from Users
Jun 24, 2020
Kevin Systrom (Instagram) - How Instagram Scaled
Jun 03, 2020
Alexi Robichaux (BetterUp) - Uncompromising Values
May 27, 2020
Ethan Brown (Beyond Meat) - Reimagining Meat
May 22, 2020
Andy Karsner (X) - Designing for Natural Security
May 13, 2020
Joseph Tsai (Alibaba Group) - From Alibaba to the NBA
May 06, 2020
Amy Francetic (Buoyant Ventures) - The Evolution of Clean Tech Investing
Apr 29, 2020
Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures) - Leadership in a Crisis
Apr 22, 2020
Annie Kadavy (Redpoint Ventures) - Venture Capital Decisionmaking
Apr 15, 2020
Ravi Belani (Stanford University) - Building Billion Dollar Businesses
Mar 11, 2020
Mark Gainey (Strava) - How Strava Found its Niche
Mar 04, 2020
Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) - Strategies for Student Entrepreneurs
Feb 26, 2020
Omar Tawakol (Voicea) - The Future of Voice
Feb 19, 2020
Kate Rosenbluth (Cala Health) - A Needs-Based Innovation Framework
Feb 12, 2020
Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living) - Scaling with Purpose
Feb 05, 2020
Melinda Thomas (Octave Bioscience) - The Courage to Begin
Jan 29, 2020
Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind
Jan 22, 2020
Designing the Life You Really Want - From the ETL Archive
Jan 01, 2020
Laura Gomez (Atipica) - The Need for Inclusive AI
Dec 04, 2019
Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work - From the ETL Archive
Nov 26, 2019
Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital) - Underestimated
Nov 20, 2019
Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) - Unicorn Lessons
Nov 13, 2019
Srin Madipalli (Airbnb) - The Future is Accessible
Nov 06, 2019
Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly) - Software is Hard Work
Oct 30, 2019
Barbara Liskov (MIT) - Finding the Great Problems
Oct 23, 2019
Jennifer Tejada (PagerDuty) - Resilience is Everything
Oct 16, 2019
Sarah Nahm (Lever) - Redesigning the CEO [Explicit]
Oct 09, 2019
Sickamore (Interscope Records) and Sam Seidel (Stanford d.school) - Inside the Studio
Jun 12, 2019
Christine Yen (Honeycomb.io) - Creating a Buzz Around B2B Software
Jun 05, 2019
Matthew Sacks and Lauren Perkins (Luminary Media) - Listening to the Market
May 29, 2019
Chip Conley (Modern Elder Academy) - How to Adapt and Flow
May 22, 2019
Toby Corey (Stanford University) - The Zen of Entrepreneurship
May 15, 2019
Payam Banazadeh (Capella Space) - Prepare to Launch
May 08, 2019
Nicole Hu (One Concern) - Strategies to Fight Disaster
May 01, 2019
Ritu Narayan (Zūm) - Sustaining a Startup's Growth
Apr 24, 2019
Freada Kapor Klein (Kapor Capital) - Closing Tech's Diversity Gap
Apr 17, 2019
The Upside of Quitting: A Taste of LEAP!
Mar 20, 2019
Alberto Savoia (Google) - Build the Right It
Mar 13, 2019
Navin Chaddha (Mayfield) - Building a People-First Company
Mar 06, 2019
Alice Zhang (Verge Genomics) - When DNA Meets AI
Feb 27, 2019
Raj Kapoor (Lyft) and John Viera (Ford Motor Company) - Mobilizing the Future
Feb 20, 2019
Balaji Srinivasan (Coinbase) - Building the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Feb 13, 2019
Elaine Wherry (Meebo) - Climbing the Ladder
Feb 06, 2019
Ryan Petersen (Flexport) - Modernizing the Shipping Industry
Jan 23, 2019
Dan Widmaier (Bolt Threads) - Design to Disrupt
Dec 05, 2018
Brad Bao (Lime) - Innovation Driven By Sustainability
Nov 28, 2018
Emily Melton (Threshold) - Focus On Forward Momentum
Nov 14, 2018
Adam Pisoni (Abl Schools) - Let Your Customers Educate You
Nov 07, 2018
Tina Seelig with Steve Garrity (Hearsay Systems) and Juliet Rothenberg (DeepMind) - Find Your Superpower, Launch Your Career
Oct 31, 2018
Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) - Strike the EQ/IQ Balance in Venture Capital
Oct 24, 2018
Manish Chandra (Poshmark) - Channeling an Adaptive Mindset
Oct 17, 2018
Maureen Fan (Baobab Studios) - Animating Against the Grain
Oct 10, 2018
Nancy Koehn (Harvard Business School), Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Tenacious Compassion: Leading Through the Storm
Jun 13, 2018
Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital) - Focus on Users to Solve Problems
Jun 06, 2018
Lisa Alderson (Genome Medical) - Dare to Stretch Your Boundaries
May 30, 2018
Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia) - A Burnout Manifesto
May 23, 2018
Joshua Hoffman (Zymergen) - Insights of an Accidental Entrepreneur
May 16, 2018
Chip Heath (Stanford University) - How Organizations Can Win Our Hearts
May 09, 2018
Tracy Chou (Project Include) - Debugging the Brogrammer Culture
May 02, 2018
Julayne Virgil (Girls Inc.) - The Courage to Take Positive Risks
Apr 25, 2018
David Baszucki (Roblox) - When the Platform is Your Product
Apr 18, 2018
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) - Elements of Effective Leadership
Mar 14, 2018
Josh McFarland (Greylock Partners) - Answering Common Startup Questions
Mar 07, 2018
M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford (Conservation International) - Scaling Sustainability
Feb 28, 2018
Eurie Kim (Forerunner Ventures) - How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You
Feb 21, 2018
Chris Anderson (3D Robotics) - The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup
Feb 14, 2018
Sameer Dholakia (SendGrid) - Focus On People
Feb 05, 2018
Leila Janah (Samasource) - Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work
Jan 30, 2018
Chris Gerdes (Stanford University) - Ingenuity Derived from Self-Driving Cars
Jan 24, 2018
Patrick Brown (Impossible Foods) - Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change
Dec 05, 2017
Anne Wojcicki (23andMe) - Driving Discovery and Disruption
Nov 21, 2017
Amy Chang (Accompany) - Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing
Nov 13, 2017
Tristan Harris (Time Well Spent) - Making Technology Less Manipulative
Nov 03, 2017
Catherine Berman (CNote) - Embrace Your Otherness
Oct 31, 2017
Rich Barton (Zillow Group) - Empower People with Information
Oct 26, 2017
Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - How to Outwit Workplace Jerks
Oct 18, 2017
Sandy Jen (Honor) - The Rewards of Taking Risks
Oct 18, 2017
Bob Sutton (Stanford University), Patty McCord (Patty McCord Consulting) - ETL Takeover: A Taste of FRICTION
Aug 11, 2017
Toni Townes-Whitley (Microsoft) - The Ethics of Innovation
Jun 07, 2017
David Eagleman (Stanford School of Medicine) - A Brainy Approach to Innovation
May 31, 2017
Carlos Watson (Ozy Media) - Taking a Lead From Tech
May 24, 2017
Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson (Zoox) - Self-Driving Cars for Everyone
May 17, 2017
Kevin Weil (Instagram) - Unfiltered Insights From Instagram
May 10, 2017
Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker), Judah Pollack (Riverene Leadership) - Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking
May 03, 2017
Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle
Apr 26, 2017
Tracy Young (PlanGrid), Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital) - Solve the Problem You Have
Apr 19, 2017
Shirzad Chamine (Positive Intelligence, Inc.) - The Enlightened Entrepreneur
Mar 15, 2017
Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze) - Driving Growth + Authenticity
Mar 08, 2017
Dave Evans (Stanford Life Design Lab) - Designing the Life You Really Want
Mar 01, 2017
Susan Feldman (One Kings Lane) - Bootstrapping with Flair
Feb 22, 2017
Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania) - Six Ways to be an ‘Original’
Feb 15, 2017
Meg Whitman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - Lessons in Situational Leadership
Feb 01, 2017
Brendan Boyle (IDEO) - Playing With Purpose
Jan 25, 2017
Bob Tinker (MobileIron) - Evolving With Your Company
Jan 25, 2017
Margaret Anne Neale (Stanford Graduate School of Business) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Margaret Anne Neale
Jan 18, 2017
Jay Kaplan (Synack) - Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity
Dec 07, 2016
Julie Zhuo (Facebook) - How a Facebook Designer Thinks
Nov 23, 2016
Michael Ackermann (Allergan) - A Tearful Tale of Biodesign
Nov 16, 2016
Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Entrepreneurship Strengthens a Nation
Nov 09, 2016
Etosha Cave (Opus 12), Jonah Greenberger (Bright, Inc.), Cody Karutz (STRIVR Labs, Inc.), Elaine Cheung (GRAIL, Inc.) - Returning With Real-World Wisdom
Nov 02, 2016
Jane Chen (Embrace Innovations) - Embrace the Entrepreneurial Journey
Oct 26, 2016
Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - An Entrepreneurial Mindset — Applied to You
Oct 19, 2016
Joseph DeSimone (Carbon3D, Inc.) - Convergence Drives New Ideas
Oct 12, 2016
Michael Terrell (Terrell Leadership Group) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Michael Terrell
Oct 05, 2016
Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education
May 25, 2016
William Perry (Stanford University) - Dedication to Innovation and Nation
May 18, 2016
Bobby Lee (BTCC) - Why Bitcoin Makes Sense
May 11, 2016
Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson (Play Bigger Advisors) - How to Be a Category King
May 04, 2016
DJ Kleinbaum (Emerald Therapeutics) - Contrarian Truths Empowering Innovation
Apr 27, 2016
Astro Teller (X) - Celebrating Failure Fuels Moonshots
Apr 20, 2016
Bernard Roth (Stanford University) - Reframing Problems and Getting Honest
Apr 13, 2016
Derek Belch (STRIVR Labs) - Immersed in Virtual Reality
Apr 06, 2016
Minnie Ingersoll (Shift) - A Drive to Disrupt
Mar 02, 2016
Federica Marchionni (Lands' End) - Embracing the Non-Obvious
Feb 24, 2016
James Freeman (Blue Bottle Coffee) - Subtle Notes of Coffee and Philosophy
Feb 17, 2016
Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) - Why Company Culture is Crucial
Feb 10, 2016
John Hennessy (Stanford University) - Great Leadership Can Be Learned
Feb 03, 2016
Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Dare to Do Legendary Things
Jan 27, 2016
Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital), Lisa Sugar (Popsugar) - Follow Your Instincts and Find Your Path
Jan 20, 2016
Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Solving Social Ills Through Innovation
Jan 13, 2016
Brit Morin (Brit + Co) - Inspiring Creativity with Great Content
Nov 18, 2015
Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Venture Fund) - Creating Your Own Canvas
Nov 11, 2015
Scott Cook (Intuit) - Accounting for Intuit's Success
Nov 04, 2015
Lyndon Rive (Solar City) - The Science and Incentives Behind Solar
Oct 28, 2015
James Beshara (Tilt) - Building Insights with Bricks and Mortar
Oct 21, 2015
Jeff Seibert (Twitter) - Acquisitions: Lessons from All Sides
Oct 14, 2015
Astro Teller (X), Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Christina Smolke (Stanford University School of Medicine) - Forecasting the Future of Technology
Oct 07, 2015
Elon Musk (SpaceX) - Elon Musk's Vision for the Future
Oct 07, 2015
Stewart Butterfield (Slack) - Serendipity in Design and Entrepreneurship
Sep 30, 2015
Susan Koger (ModCloth) - Find Your Venture's Emotional Core
May 27, 2015
William Marshall (Planet Labs) - Entrepreneurship Takes Flight
May 20, 2015
Chinedu Echeruo (Constant Capital Partners) - Creativity Unleashes Value for the World
May 13, 2015
Mike Rothenberg (Rothenberg Ventures) - Blue is Where You Should Be
May 06, 2015
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Simple Rules for a Complex World
Apr 29, 2015
Kyle Forster (Big Switch Networks) - Non-Linear Path to Leadership
Apr 22, 2015
Ron Gutman (HealthTap) - Impact Will Keep You Motivated
Apr 15, 2015
Sean George (Invitae) - Experience is Your Reward
Apr 08, 2015
Laurene Powell Jobs (Emerson Collective) - Injecting Innovation into Intractable Systems
Mar 04, 2015
Joshua Reeves (Gusto) - The Startup Journey: A Marathon, Not a Sprint
Feb 25, 2015
John Collison (Stripe) - Putting Startup Success in Perspective
Feb 18, 2015
Kathryn Gould (Foundation Capital) - Figure Out What's Important
Feb 11, 2015
Alon Cohen (Houzz) - Making Complicated Things Simple
Feb 04, 2015
Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang Architects) - Growing a Creative Company
Jan 28, 2015
Shah Selbe (National Geographic Society) - Find Your Niche, Help the World
Jan 21, 2015
Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America) - Make Government Work Better for All
Jan 14, 2015
Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) - Nailing the Hard Things
Nov 19, 2014
Tina Wells (Buzz Marketing Group) - Consumers and Brands in the Digital Age
Nov 12, 2014
Jennifer Carolan (New Schools Seed Fund) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education
Nov 05, 2014
Lewis Cirne (New Relic) - Life is Too Short for Bad Software
Oct 29, 2014
Matt Rogers (Nest) - Tackle Projects Others Don't Want
Oct 22, 2014
Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - From Inspiration to Implementation
Oct 15, 2014
Liz Wiseman (Author) - The Power of Not Knowing
Oct 08, 2014
Kevin Hartz and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite) - Optimal Traits and Sustainable Advantages
Oct 01, 2014
Heidi Roizen (Threshold) - Adventures in Entrepreneurship
May 28, 2014
Leah Busque (TaskRabbit) - Do Something You Love
May 21, 2014
Geoff Donaker (Yelp) - The Road to IPO
May 14, 2014
Linda Rottenberg (Endeavor) - Crazy is a Compliment
May 07, 2014
Ed Catmull (Disney/Pixar Animation) - Creativity, Inc.
Apr 30, 2014
Morris Chang (Taiwan Semiconductor) - An Emphasis on Excellence
Apr 23, 2014
Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined
Apr 16, 2014
Tristan Walker (Walker and Company) - Be an Authentic Entrepreneur
Apr 09, 2014
Cameron Teitelman (StartX), Joseph Huang (WifiSLAM), Milt McColl (Gauss Surgical), Smita Saxena (SpotOn) - Acceleration Through Community
Mar 05, 2014
Hemant Shah (RMS) - A True Model for Embracing Change
Feb 26, 2014
Cameron Strang (Warner Bros. Records), Nate Ruess (fun.) - The Music Industry Unplugged
Feb 19, 2014
Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Scaling Up Excellence
Feb 12, 2014
Gurjeet Singh and Gunnar Carlsson (Ayasdi) - Shaping the Future of Data
Feb 05, 2014
William Hsu (MuckerLab) - Moving from Hubris to Confidence
Jan 29, 2014
Halle Tecco (Rock Health) - Accelerating Real Change in Healthcare
Jan 15, 2014
Sharon Vosmek (Astia) - The Path to More Inclusive Innovation
Nov 20, 2013
Mike Olson (Cloudera) - Opportunities Abound in the Big Data Space
Nov 13, 2013
Scott Harrison (charity: water) - Thirsting for a Life of Service
Nov 06, 2013
Bill Drayton (Ashoka) - A World of Changemakers
Oct 30, 2013
Steve Teig (Tabula) - Revel in the Adventure of New Ideas
Oct 23, 2013
Cyriac Roeding (Shopkick) - You Have to Break the Egg
Oct 16, 2013
Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) - Realizing Innovation at Enterprise Scale
Oct 09, 2013
Matthew Rabinowitz (Natera) - There is Always a Way Forward
Oct 02, 2013
Ferdinando Buscema (Magic Experience Designer) - Magician Leadership
May 29, 2013
Jocelyn Goldfein (Facebook) - Deep Inside Facebook
May 22, 2013
Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti (KickLabs; The Last Mile), Heracio Harts (The Last Mile) - From Lockup to Startup
May 15, 2013
Justin Rosenstein (Asana) - Leading Big Visions From the Heart
May 08, 2013
Kate Mitchell (Scale Venture Partners) - Own Your Own Success
May 01, 2013
Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta (Pulse) - What You Learn by Doing
Apr 24, 2013
Monica Lam (Stanford University) - Mobile Can Disrupt Social
Apr 17, 2013
Nassim Taleb (Author) - How Things Gain from Disorder
Apr 10, 2013
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media) - Create More Value Than You Capture
Mar 06, 2013
Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu (Skybox Imaging) - Launching into Uncharted Space
Feb 27, 2013
Stephen Cohen (Palantir) - The Path to Palantir
Feb 20, 2013
Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures) - An Enterprising Approach to Investment
Feb 13, 2013
Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) - Calling All Entrepreneurial Heroes
Feb 06, 2013
John Lilly (Greylock Partners) - White Space is Everywhere
Jan 30, 2013
Steven McCormick (Moore Foundation) - Drive Change Through Entrepreneurship
Jan 23, 2013
Hank Wuh (Skai Ventures) - Disruptive Innovation Can Happen Anywhere
Jan 16, 2013
Sue Siegel (GE) - A Healthy Respect for Innovation
Nov 28, 2012
Melinda Gates (Gates Foundation) - Pursue Passions with a Vengeance
Nov 14, 2012
Jess Lee (Polyvore) - Path and Purpose of a First-TIme CEO
Nov 07, 2012
Noam Wasserman (Harvard Business School) - The Founder's Dilemmas
Oct 31, 2012
Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Steve Garrity (Hearsay Social), Kit Rodgers (Cryptography Research), Divya Nag (Stem Cell Theranostics) - Impact: Stanford Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Oct 24, 2012
Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures) - Timing Matters
Oct 17, 2012
Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker) - Build Your Personal Charisma
Oct 10, 2012
Drew Houston (Dropbox) - Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
May 30, 2012
Adam Lashinsky (Author) - Secrets at Apple's Core
May 23, 2012
Daniel Ek (Spotify) - A Playlist for Entrepreneurs
May 16, 2012
Brian Murray (HarperCollins) - A Story of Change and Opportunity
May 09, 2012
Rebeca Hwang (YouNoodle), Elizabeth Samara-Rubio (StorWatts) - Small Acts and Big Impacts
May 02, 2012
Gale Anne Hurd (Film and Television Producer) - Producing a Career from the Ground Up
Apr 18, 2012
Jeff Church (Nika Water) - The Wave of Social Entrepreneurship
Apr 11, 2012
Sandra Kurtzig (Kenandy, ASK Group), Andy Kurtzig (JustAnswer) - Two Generations of Entrepreneurship
Mar 07, 2012
Kristina Johnson (Enduring Energy) - Energies that Power a Career
Feb 29, 2012
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Live Life in Permanent Beta
Feb 22, 2012
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (JOYUS) - Find Your Vector of Impact
Feb 15, 2012
Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Embrace Uncertainty
Feb 08, 2012
Ted Zoller (Kauffman Foundation) - Building an Entrepreneurial Career
Feb 01, 2012
Alexander Osterwalder (Author) - Tools for Business Model Generation
Jan 25, 2012
Deborah Hopkins (Citi) - Talking About a Revolution
Jan 18, 2012
Jessica Mah (inDinero) - A Startup is a Learning Experience
Nov 30, 2011
Dana Mead (KPCB) - Understanding Venture Capital
Nov 16, 2011
Adam Lowry (Method) - Method to Success
Nov 09, 2011
Marten Mickos (Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL AB) - Believe In Something Bigger Than Yourself
Nov 02, 2011
Scott Summit (Bespoke Innovations) - Products With a Purpose
Oct 26, 2011
Brad Feld (Foundry Group, TechStars) - Great Entrepreneurs Go Out and Do
Oct 19, 2011
Phil Libin (Evernote) - No Exit Strategy for Your Life's Work
Oct 12, 2011
David Friedberg (The Climate Corporation) - Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning
Oct 05, 2011
Aneesh Chopra (US Office of Science and Technology) - Innovate for America
May 25, 2011
Wences Casares (Bling Nation & Lemon Bank) - The Value of True Partnerships
May 18, 2011
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram) - From Stanford to Startup
May 11, 2011
Geoffrey Moore (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - Reach Your Escape Velocity
May 04, 2011
Richard Scheller (Genentech) - Developing Products that Save Lives
Apr 27, 2011
Ori Brafman (Author) - How to Build Instant Connections
Apr 20, 2011
Barry Silbert (SecondMarket, Inc.) - A New Vision for Capital Markets
Apr 13, 2011
Jennifer Morris (Conservation International) - Effective Models for Sustainable Growth
Apr 06, 2011
Guy Kawasaki (Garage Technology Ventures) - Creating Enchantment
Mar 02, 2011
Bill Gross (Idealab & eSolar) - A Devotion to New Ideas
Feb 23, 2011
Mark Forchette (OptiMedica) - Live for the Future and Survive Success
Feb 16, 2011
Jack Dorsey (Square) - The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration
Feb 09, 2011
Susan Desmond-Hellmann (UCSF) - Relentless Pursuit of Innovation
Feb 02, 2011
Brent Constantz (Calera) - Following Your Startup Vision
Jan 26, 2011
Aaron Levie (Box.net) - Delivering Innovation for the Enterprise
Jan 19, 2011
Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) - Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education
Jan 12, 2011
Jennifer Aaker (Stanford University, GSB) - How Ideas Take Flight
Nov 17, 2010
Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - What Great Leaders Do
Nov 10, 2010
Diego Piacentini (Amazon) - Customer Focus Builds Global Growth
Nov 03, 2010
Ann Miura-Ko (FLOODGATE) - Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs
Oct 27, 2010
Thomas Prescott (Align Technology) - Leadership and Disruptive Technologies
Oct 20, 2010
Mark Suster (Serial Entrepreneur) - Honest Advice on Starting a Company
Oct 13, 2010
Dan Rosensweig (Chegg), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital) - Solving Problems Makes a Great Business
Oct 06, 2010
Amit Chatterjee (Hara, Inc.) - Entrepreneurial Lessons: Find Value and Make Impact
Sep 29, 2010
Juan Andrés Fontaine (Chilean Government) - Chile: Launching a Global Entrepreneurship Hub
Sep 22, 2010
Alec Ross (Advisor to US Secretary of State) - The Diplomacy of Technology
May 26, 2010
Josh Makower (ExploraMed) - The Perfect Storm in MedTech
May 19, 2010
Marc Andreessen (Serial Entrepreneur) - A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond
May 12, 2010
Lisa Lambert (Intel Capital) - Investing for Market Strategy and Capital
May 05, 2010
Tom Conrad (Pandora) - A Pandora's Box of Start-up Expertise
Apr 28, 2010
Carlos Perea (Miox) - The Ebb and Flow of Clean Tech and Entrepreneurs
Apr 21, 2010
John Seely Brown (Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation) - Collaborative Innovation and a Pull Economy
Apr 14, 2010
Polly Sumner (salesforce.com), Liz Tinkham (Accenture) - Success and Failure Drive Innovation
Mar 03, 2010
Steve Case (AOL, Revolution) - People, Passion, Perseverance: You've Got Entrepreneurship
Feb 24, 2010
Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle (SlideShare) - Sharing a Measure of Success
Feb 17, 2010
Steve Garrity and Clara Shih (Hearsay Social), Jeff Seibert (Twitter), Joshua Reeves (Gusto), Tristan Harris (Apture) - Panel of Young Entrepreneurs
Feb 10, 2010
William Hagstrom (Crescendo Bioscience) - Entrepreneurial Journeys in Healthcare
Feb 03, 2010
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (Stanford University) - Risky Business: Analysis from an Engineering Perspective
Jan 27, 2010
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) - Unlearn Your MBA
Jan 20, 2010
John Adler (Accuray), Trip Adler (Scribd) - Evolution of a CEO
Jan 13, 2010
Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Fall 2009 Quarter Roundup: What Did We Learn?
Nov 11, 2009
Chamillionaire (Music Artist & Performer), Quincy Jones III (QD3 Entertainment) - Successful Independent Promotion: From Artist to Entrepreneur
Nov 04, 2009
Mark Pincus (Zynga) - A Serious Take on Internet Game Play
Oct 28, 2009
Craig Barrett (Intel Corporation (Formerly)) - A Historical Perspective on Semiconductors and Moore's Law
Oct 21, 2009
Greg Papadopoulos (Sun Microsystems) - Responsible Engineering in the Modern Age
Oct 14, 2009
Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) - Innovation in a Disruptive Environment
Oct 07, 2009
Eric Ries (Author) - Evangelizing for the Lean Startup
Sep 30, 2009
Robin Li (Baidu) - Lessons From China: The Evolution of The Globe's Largest Search Engine
Sep 23, 2009
Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - The Art of Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation
May 27, 2009
Steve Westly (The Westly Group) - Clean Tech Challenges and Solutions
May 20, 2009
Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) - Inside the Mind of a Reluctant Entrepreneur
May 13, 2009
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) - The Future of Microsoft, The Future of Technology
May 06, 2009
Jennifer Scott Fonstad (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Steve Perricone (BioFuelBox) - Under the Lid of BioFuelBox
Apr 29, 2009
Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) - Spotlight on Scalability
Apr 22, 2009
Mari Baker (PlayFirst) - Building an Organization, Building a Team
Apr 15, 2009
Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) - Vision Matters
Apr 08, 2009
Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn) - What is the Next Big Thing?
Feb 25, 2009
John Hennessy (Stanford University) - Innovation as the Crux of Entrepreneurship
Feb 18, 2009
Tom Siebel (First Virtual Group) - Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace
Feb 11, 2009
Spencer E. Ante (BusinessWeek) - A History of Venture Capital
Feb 04, 2009
Teresa Briggs (Deloitte Silicon Valley) - Making a Big Company Feel Small
Jan 28, 2009
Soujanya Bhumkar, Josh Schwarzapel and Austin Shoemaker (Cooliris) - The Growth and Bloom of Cooliris
Jan 21, 2009
Hugh Martin (Pacific Biosciences) - 13 Mistakes and 13 Brilliant Strokes
Jan 14, 2009
Negotiating Your Career
Nov 12, 2008
Tom Kelley (IDEO) - Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life
Nov 12, 2008
Anna Patterson (Cuil) - A Cuil Tune-up for Search Engines
Nov 05, 2008
Judy Estrin (JLABS, LLC) - Is Innovation Withering on the Vine?
Oct 29, 2008
Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) - The Black Swans of Energy Invention
Oct 22, 2008
William McDonough (William McDonough + Partners) - Balancing Economy, Equity, and Ecology Through Design
Oct 15, 2008
Erik Straser (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - The Next Wave of Industry: Global Clean Tech
Oct 08, 2008
Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Retooling Early Stage Development
Oct 01, 2008
Beth Seidenberg (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) - A VC Perspective on the Life Sciences
May 28, 2008
John Melo (Amyris Biotechnologies) - Under the Microscope: Socially Responsible Biotech
May 21, 2008
Larry Brilliant (Google.org) - The Next Wave of Corporate Philanthropy
May 14, 2008
Sue Decker (Yahoo! Inc.) - The Evolution of Yahoo!
May 07, 2008
Anand Chandrasekaran (Aeroprise) - Unreeling the Documentary Film
Apr 30, 2008
Peter Diamandis (X PRIZE Foundation) - Rewarding Sky-High Innovation
Apr 23, 2008
David Rothkopf (Author) - Concentrated Power in a Global Economy
Apr 16, 2008
Jeff Housenbold (Shutterfly) - Entrepreneurship that Clicks
Apr 09, 2008
Ken Wilcox (Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group) - Banking on Corporate Culture and Strategy
Mar 05, 2008
Debra Dunn (Skoll Foundation), Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy (B Corporation) - Representing the Socially Responsible Enterprise
Feb 27, 2008
Mir Imran (InCube Labs) - Healthy Entrepreneurship in Medical Devices
Feb 20, 2008
Brett Crosby (Google Analytics) - The Path to an Acquisition
Feb 13, 2008
Christine Benninger (Humane Society of Silicon Valley) - Entrepreneurial Practices for High-Impact Non-Profits
Feb 06, 2008
Jesse Fink (MissionPoint Capital Partners), Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Intersection of the Environment and Financial Markets
Jan 30, 2008
Ron Conway (Angel Investors LP), Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Angel Investing Revealed
Jan 23, 2008
Mitch Kapor (Foxmarks) - How to Build a Successful Company
Jan 16, 2008
Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent) - Delivering a Digital Torrent
Nov 28, 2007
Armen Berjikly (Experience Project) - Connecting Common Experiences
Nov 14, 2007
Larry Bawden (Jadoo Power) - The Growth of Solar Ventures
Nov 07, 2007
Stan Christensen (Stanford Technology Ventures Program; Arbor Advisors) - The Art of Negotiation
Oct 31, 2007
Dominic Orr (Aruba Networks) - Startups: The Need for Speed
Oct 17, 2007
Martin Eberhard (Tesla Motors) - Lessons from the Electric Roadster
Oct 10, 2007
Donna Novitsky (STVP) - From Venture Capitalist to Entrepreneur
Oct 03, 2007
Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - The No Jerk Rule
May 30, 2007
Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Corporation) - Community-Based Organizations
May 23, 2007
Stan Christensen Interviews Secretary George P. Shultz on Negotiation
May 22, 2007
Negotiations On and Off the Field
May 22, 2007
Andrew Frame (Ooma), Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Adventures of a Startup CEO: No Guts No Glory
May 16, 2007
Jackie Speier (Author and Former State Senator), Deborah Stephens (Center for Innovative Leadership) - Overcoming Adversity and Taking Risks
May 09, 2007
Carly Fiorina (Former CEO, HP) - Leadership and Choice
May 02, 2007
Shai Agassi (SAP AG) - The Physics of Startups
Apr 25, 2007
Mark Jung (IGN) - Phases of a Startup
Apr 18, 2007
William Perry (Stanford University) - It's Your Ship: Lessons in Leadership
Apr 11, 2007
Tom Byers (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - The Role of Entrepreneurship in Solving World Problems
Feb 28, 2007
G. Steven Burrill (Burrill & Company) - An Entrepreneurial Perspective on the Life Sciences Industry
Feb 21, 2007
Gregory Waldorf (eHarmony) - 5 Must-Haves of an Entrepreneurial Career
Feb 14, 2007
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Choosing the Entrepreneurial Path
Feb 07, 2007
Ron Bloom (PodShow) - The Dynamic Relationship Between an Entrepreneur and VC
Jan 31, 2007
Tien Tzuo (Salesforce.com) - Changing the Game of Enterprise Software
Jan 24, 2007
Janice Roberts (Mayfield Fund) - The New Adventures of Old VC's
Jan 17, 2007
Scott Kriens (Juniper Networks) - Words of Wisdom from an Experienced CEO
Nov 29, 2006
Greg Ballard (Glu Mobile) - Confessions of a Serial Silicon Valley CEO
Nov 15, 2006
Nick Earl (Electronic Arts) - The New Frontier in Gaming
Nov 08, 2006
Joe McCracken (Genentech) - A Culture of Making a Difference
Nov 01, 2006
Chris Larsen (Prosper Marketplace) - "Founding Prosper, a People-to-People Lending Marketplace"
Oct 25, 2006
Rick Wallace (KLA-Tencor) - "Vision, Values & Strategy"
Oct 18, 2006
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Research Lens on Understanding Entrepreneurial Firms
Oct 04, 2006
Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Stimulating Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace
Aug 26, 2006
Gil Penchina (Wikia) - The Contrasts of a Big Company and a Small Start-Up
Jun 07, 2006
Ryan Phelan (DNA Direct) - Groundbreaking Healthcare Initiatives and the Entrepreneurial Minds Behind Them
May 31, 2006
Marissa Mayer (Google) - Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google
May 17, 2006
Pam Marrone (AgraQuest) - The Ins and Outs of a successful Biotechnology Company
May 10, 2006
Secret to Successful Negotiations
May 02, 2006
Stephanie Keller-Bottom (Nokia Innovent) - The Fairy Tale of Innovent and How it Came to be
Apr 26, 2006
Katie Rodan (Proactiv Solution) - The Story of Proactiv Solution
Apr 19, 2006
Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Apr 12, 2006
John Roos (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati) - Life Inside a Law Firm
Mar 08, 2006
Carol Bartz (Autodesk) - Balancing Work and Life
Mar 01, 2006
Michael Goldberg (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - Lessons Learned in the Life Sciences Industry
Feb 22, 2006
Chong-Moon Lee (Ambex Venture Group) - Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy Through the Eyes of an Immigrant
Feb 15, 2006
Kim Popovits (Genomic Health) - Strategies in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Feb 08, 2006
Janice Fraser (Adaptive Path) - Entrepreneurial Leadership Qualities
Feb 01, 2006
Bobby Beaver and Jeff Beaver (Zazzle) - Two Brothers Building a Company From Scratch
Jan 25, 2006
Tom Byers (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Ten Enduring Success Factors for High Technology Entrepreneurship
Jan 18, 2006
Frank Ricks (LRK Architecture) - Using Creative Leadership
Nov 16, 2005
Kim Polese (SpikeSource) - Twenty Years of Experience in Developing Software in Silicon Valley
Nov 09, 2005
Lonnie Smith (Intuitive Surgical) - From Start-up to Market Dominance in the Field of Surgical Robotics
Nov 02, 2005
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) - From Harvard to the Facebook
Oct 26, 2005
Joe Liemandt (Trilogy) - The Passion and Perseverance Behind a Start-up
Oct 19, 2005
Evan Williams (Odeo) - The Technology of Podcasting
Oct 12, 2005
Geoff Davis (Unitus) - The Microfinance of Entrepreneurship
Oct 05, 2005
Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) - Entrepreneurship Viewed as a Tool and When to Use it in Industry & Science
May 18, 2005