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
Carlos Watson (Ozy Media) - Taking a Lead From Tech
Carlos Watson, co-founder and CEO of Ozy Media, describes how its forward-focused digital news magazine, Ozy, looks more toward innovators in business sectors outside traditional media. The Emmy-winn…
00:57:30 |
Wed 24 May 2017
Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson (Zoox) - Self-Driving Cars for Everyone
Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson, co-founders of autonomous-vehicle startup Zoox, detail a not-too-distant future when we’ll get into their cars and do nothing other than say where we need to go. …
00:58:25 |
Wed 17 May 2017
Kevin Weil (Instagram) - Unfiltered Insights From Instagram
What motivates you to share a photo on Instagram — or not? Kevin Weil, head of product at the company, discusses everything from user behavior to business strategy with Stanford Professor of the Prac…
00:59:49 |
Wed 10 May 2017
Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker), Judah Pollack (Riverene Leadership) - Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking
Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack, co-authors of the book “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking,” share tips on how we can train ourselves to have more “eureka” …
00:54:46 |
Wed 03 May 2017
Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle
Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, shares her evolution from lonely inventor to inspiring entrepreneur with a vision to give young girls the confidence to become engineers through hands-…
00:58:02 |
Wed 26 Apr 2017
Tracy Young (PlanGrid), Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital) - Solve the Problem You Have
Entrepreneur Tracy Young and Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia, discuss the nature of a harmonious relationship between a startup’s founders and the VC firm investing in them. Young is c…
01:01:43 |
Wed 19 Apr 2017
Shirzad Chamine (Positive Intelligence, Inc.) - The Enlightened Entrepreneur
Before Shirzad Chamine found his calling as a coach to today’s top CEOs and executive teams, he was a charismatic entrepreneur who turned into a hyper-critical tyrant without even knowing it. That da…
00:59:04 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze) - Driving Growth + Authenticity
Di-Ann Eisnor, director of growth for Waze, explores whether authenticity can be preserved when a well-meaning startup scales to a workforce of hundreds and a user community of about a billion. Eisno…
00:57:33 |
Wed 08 Mar 2017
Dave Evans (Stanford Life Design Lab) - Designing the Life You Really Want
Dave Evans, co-founder of the popular Life Design Lab at Stanford University, discusses the key concepts and exercises that guide students in their quest to figure out what they want to do in life. H…
01:00:14 |
Wed 01 Mar 2017
Susan Feldman (One Kings Lane) - Bootstrapping with Flair
E-commerce entrepreneur Susan Feldman describes how she and her co-founder went from bootstrapping One Kings Lane in the midst of the Great Recession, standing out from competitors in the home-decor …
00:57:00 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania) - Six Ways to be an ‘Original’
University of Pennsylvania Professor Adam Grant, one of today’s most influential management thinkers, shares the top six takeaways from his book “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World,” bring…
00:48:16 |
Wed 15 Feb 2017
Meg Whitman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - Lessons in Situational Leadership
Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, describes how she learned to lead companies big and small to success by adjusting to different environments, building on what a business …
01:02:51 |
Wed 01 Feb 2017
Bob Tinker (MobileIron) - Evolving With Your Company
Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker was humbled when he stepped down as CEO of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile security that went from being a three-man startup to a public company with nearly 1,00…
00:58:31 |
Wed 25 Jan 2017
Brendan Boyle (IDEO) - Playing With Purpose
It may not be rocket science, but there’s still much to consider when inventing children's toys, starting with all the ideas for what to build. Within the famous design firm IDEO, a small team toils …
00:56:15 |
Wed 25 Jan 2017
Margaret Anne Neale (Stanford Graduate School of Business) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Margaret Anne Neale
If you really want to win at negotiation, stop fighting and start listening. In this episode of Stanford Innovation Lab, host Tina Seelig speaks with Margaret “Maggie” Neale, professor at the Stanfor…
00:25:57 |
Wed 18 Jan 2017
Jay Kaplan (Synack) - Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity
Entrepreneur Jay Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Synack, describes how the idea of creating a cybersecurity service for enterprise businesses by crowdsourcing hackers went from sounding like a long sho…
00:42:38 |
Wed 07 Dec 2016
Julie Zhuo (Facebook) - How a Facebook Designer Thinks
Julie Zhuo, vice president of product design at Facebook, describes how the development of new features starts with three questions: What people problem are we solving? How do we know it’s a real pro…
00:38:21 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
Michael Ackermann (Allergan) - A Tearful Tale of Biodesign
Michael Ackermann, CEO of a med-tech startup that created a tear-stimulation device for those with dry-eye disease, explains how acquisition by a global pharmaceutical giant is helping him achieve hi…
00:56:01 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Entrepreneurship Strengthens a Nation
Retired serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, creator of the “Lean LaunchPad” methodology for startups, discusses Silicon Valley’s roots as the epicenter of electronic warfare in the mid-20th century and …
00:57:42 |
Wed 09 Nov 2016
Etosha Cave (Opus 12), Jonah Greenberger (Bright, Inc.), Cody Karutz (STRIVR Labs, Inc.), Elaine Cheung (GRAIL, Inc.) - Returning With Real-World Wisdom
Four alumni of entrepreneurship-education fellowships offered through the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) return to share what starting businesses in the fields of virtual reality, med-te…
00:59:20 |
Wed 02 Nov 2016
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