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.

Culture Innovation Leadership Business Creativity Entrepreneurship Education

Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 53 minutes
Episodes: 505
Years Active: 2005 - 2025

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Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education [ETL Looks Back]

Richard Miller emphasizes continuous, community-based learning and problem-solving as essential to design-centered thinking.

00:53:46 | Wed 23 Oct 2024

Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education [ETL Looks Back]

Jennifer Carolan discusses blending the venture model with education, and following teachers’ leads in the EdTech revolution.

00:57:11 | Wed 16 Oct 2024

Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined [ETL Looks Back]

A decade ago, Sal Khan envisioned using technology to tailor education to individual and community needs.

00:59:40 | Wed 09 Oct 2024

Announcing ETL Looks Back

While ETL takes a break from new episodes, we’re looking back at some timely gems from our archives.

00:01:15 | Wed 09 Oct 2024

Alexandra Zatarain (Eight Sleep) - Getting to Product-Market Fit

Alexandra Zatarain is the co-founder and VP of brand and marketing of Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company. A marketer and brand-builder, Zatarain has built the Eight Sleep brand and …

00:49:28 | Wed 05 Jun 2024

Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health Tech, Mentally Healthy Startups

Maria Barrera, a Stanford-educated engineer, is the founder and CEO of Clayful, a platform dedicated to providing essential mental health support for the TikTok generation. Today, Barrera’s company c…

00:48:15 | Wed 29 May 2024

David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology

David Allemann co-leads the Swiss sports company On, one of the fastest-growing global sports brands. He puts a special focus on product, design, marketing, and the direct-to-consumer business of On.…

00:48:21 | Wed 22 May 2024

Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) - Lessons from a Large Founding Team

Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, a leader in data and AI. He pioneered the data intelligence platform built on a lakehouse architecture, revolutionizing analytics and AI for global…

00:46:09 | Wed 15 May 2024

Margo Georgiadis (Flagship Pioneering and Montai Health) - Deep Tech Innovation

Margo Georgiadis is a CEO-partner at Flagship Pioneering and co-founder and CEO of Montai Health, an AI platform company enabling the predictable discovery of breakthrough small molecule medicines to…

00:49:35 | Wed 08 May 2024

Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to…

00:45:43 | Wed 01 May 2024

Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights

Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, which creates software solutions to help automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, and companies in the trucking, construction, and agriculture indust…

00:44:54 | Wed 24 Apr 2024

Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values

Sharon Prince is the CEO and founder of Grace Farms Foundation, a new kind of boundary-defying public space in New Canaan, Connecticut, that has become widely known as a global humanitarian and cultu…

00:50:01 | Wed 17 Apr 2024

Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri (Pair Eyewear) - From Stanford Students to Co-CEOs

Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri are co-founders and co-CEOs of Pair Eyewear. Since its inception, Pair Eyewear has put consumers at the center of the innovation process, ensuring that the brand…

00:50:41 | Wed 13 Mar 2024

Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship

Clara Shih is CEO of Salesforce AI, the world’s most trusted enterprise AI for customer relationship management. A digital pioneer, Shih has been named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entreprene…

00:47:00 | Wed 06 Mar 2024

Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path

Shiza Shahid is the co-founder and co-CEO of Our Place, a mission-driven startup reimagining kitchenware for the modern, multiethnic, global kitchen. Prior to Our Place, Shahid also co-founded the Ma…

00:42:53 | Wed 28 Feb 2024

Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI

Daniela Amodei is president and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Amodei manages the senior leadership team, leveraging her people and management experience to further the c…

00:52:49 | Fri 23 Feb 2024

Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success

Ernestine Fu is managing general partner of venture capital firm Brave Capital. Over the past decade, Fu has worked across the startup ecosystem, including negotiating merger and acquisition agreemen…

00:48:08 | Wed 14 Feb 2024

Bonus: ETL’s Emily Ma on Move Fast and Fix the Planet

ETL is off this week, but in its place, we’re pleased to share the first episode of a new podcast from Stanford eCorner and STVP called Move Fast and Fix the Planet. It’s about climate and sustainabi…

00:51:51 | Wed 07 Feb 2024

Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]

Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and professor emeritus of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford School of Engineering. Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao is the Atholl McBean Prof…

00:47:38 | Wed 31 Jan 2024

Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey

Adrian Rodriguez is the co-founder and CEO of Dreamlinks, a startup developing AI-powered building blocks that make creating virtual 3D worlds as fun as playing with LEGO bricks. Prior to founding Dr…

00:48:20 | Wed 24 Jan 2024

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