Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
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 (ETL) is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and published on eCorner by STVP.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 505
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
David Baszucki (Roblox) - When the Platform is Your Product
Tech entrepreneur David Baszucki explains how Roblox is essentially the YouTube for online games, a platform that derives immense value entirely from the millions of content creators and players who …
00:54:06 |
Wed 18 Apr 2018
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) - Elements of Effective Leadership
Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne tells students that life is long and lived in chapters. Some of his include being a pioneering neuroscientist, head of research at Genentech, a co-f…
00:35:16 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Josh McFarland (Greylock Partners) - Answering Common Startup Questions
How do you know when it’s time to start a company? Or when to begin fundraising, and how much? And, as you grow, how do you recruit the best executives and build a culture centered on employees? Vent…
00:57:43 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford (Conservation International) - Scaling Sustainability
Actor Harrison Ford shares his longstanding commitment to preserving nature through Conservation International, joined by the organization’s CEO, M. Sanjayan. In conversation with Stanford Professor …
00:50:21 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Eurie Kim (Forerunner Ventures) - How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You
The key is understanding your own tolerance for risk in what you do for work, and how you pay the bills at home. At the firm Forerunner Ventures, founders must have three traits in spades to get fund…
00:55:24 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
Chris Anderson (3D Robotics) - The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup
The tale of 3D Robotics starts in the garage of a teenager in Tijuana, Mexico, who launched a drone-making factory with a $500 check from entrepreneur Chris Anderson, who then flooded the American ma…
01:00:51 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Sameer Dholakia (SendGrid) - Focus On People
Choose co-founders based on their core values. Pick investors who will be there in your darkest hour. Make hiring the best people your top priority, and treat them like owners — not employees. Sameer…
00:54:36 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
Leila Janah (Samasource) - Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work
Entrepreneur Leila Janah describes how her social enterprise Samasource allows people in Africa and elsewhere to lift themselves out of poverty through dignified, fair-wage digital work like photo ta…
00:54:35 |
Tue 30 Jan 2018
Chris Gerdes (Stanford University) - Ingenuity Derived from Self-Driving Cars
On the racetrack, the checkered flag goes to the car that’s driven to its limits and maneuvered decisively in the moment. On a two-lane road, the split-second act of passing a vehicle stopped in fron…
00:56:13 |
Wed 24 Jan 2018
Patrick Brown (Impossible Foods) - Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change
Make beef out of plants instead of cows and you can begin to save the planet. That's what inspired award-winning scientist Patrick Brown to leave his professorship at Stanford University and found Im…
00:59:30 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
Anne Wojcicki (23andMe) - Driving Discovery and Disruption
Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of the popular DNA-testing company 23andMe, discusses how providing people with their own genetic data empowers consumers to make better health decisions and advance…
00:56:56 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
Amy Chang (Accompany) - Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing
Amy Chang had accomplished a lot in her eight years at Google, helping launch and then lead Google Analytics to 70 percent market share. But then she left to launch her own tech startup, a relationsh…
00:57:00 |
Mon 13 Nov 2017
Tristan Harris (Time Well Spent) - Making Technology Less Manipulative
How good are you at limiting your screen time? Because of the way humans evolved, our brains are no match for the engineers, designers and companies that collectively create the devices and apps that…
00:58:11 |
Fri 03 Nov 2017
Catherine Berman (CNote) - Embrace Your Otherness
Industry disruptors, it stands to reason, tend to be outsiders. But how comfortable are you not being an outlier? Serial entrepreneur Catherine Berman shares her story of coming to terms with the tra…
00:55:31 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
Rich Barton (Zillow Group) - Empower People with Information
There was a time, not long ago, when information we desperately wanted wasn’t at our fingertips. What’s the best deal on flights to New York? How much does that home down the street cost? Serial entr…
00:56:41 |
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - How to Outwit Workplace Jerks
Even as adults, we still have to deal with bullies, at work and otherwise. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton has devoted his career to studying organizational behavior and dysfunction, and of late, figur…
00:57:07 |
Wed 18 Oct 2017
Sandy Jen (Honor) - The Rewards of Taking Risks
Entrepreneur Sandy Jen has lived with self-doubt and insecurities throughout her life: in college, at her first startup, and later as a working mother. But facing the risks she feared each time gave …
00:52:42 |
Wed 18 Oct 2017
Bob Sutton (Stanford University), Patty McCord (Patty McCord Consulting) - ETL Takeover: A Taste of FRICTION
This special episode gives you a taste of eCorner's new podcast for the summer, FRICTION. Stanford Engineering Professor Bob Sutton interviews acclaimed leadership consultant Patty McCord. The former…
00:25:05 |
Fri 11 Aug 2017
Toni Townes-Whitley (Microsoft) - The Ethics of Innovation
How often do entrepreneurs and corporate leaders think about issues like fairness, accessibility or unseen biases in the technologies they invent and advance? That’s the challenge for companies leadi…
00:59:36 |
Wed 07 Jun 2017
David Eagleman (Stanford School of Medicine) - A Brainy Approach to Innovation
Renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman shares his passion for translating the complexities of cognition into mind-blowing inventions and educational material for the masses. The public-television hos…
00:58:22 |
Wed 31 May 2017
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