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
Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World
Jessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Kiva, the first microfinance crowdfunding platform, with $2 billion in loans since 2005. She is currently a founder and ge…
00:46:51 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights
Sarah Lamaison is the co-founder and CEO of Dioxycle, which is pioneering sustainable chemistry by building breakthrough technologies that convert industrial carbon emissions into everyday chemicals …
00:46:06 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company
Michelle Lee is the founder and CEO of Medra, which combines recent advances in robotics and computer vision to build lab automation technology. She has previously worked at NVIDIA, SpaceX, and McKin…
00:48:18 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
Andy Dunn is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Dunn co-founded the menswear e-commerce brand Bonobos in 2007 and served as the company’s CEO for its first 10 years, pioneering the digitally nati…
00:50:18 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies
Kathleen Eisenhardt is the Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor in the Stanford School of Engineering. She is also a faculty member with STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, and th…
00:46:30 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Andrew Ng (AI Fund) - The Near Future of AI
Andrew Ng is the managing general partner at AI Fund, a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up; the founder of DeepLearning.AI; and an adjunct professor of computer science at St…
00:46:19 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders
Garry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator, which funds hundreds of companies per year through a web-based application. Tan is also the co-founder, board partner and advisor of Initialized Capita…
00:48:15 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’
Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content. Coactive AI leverages artificial intelligence to make it easy for enterprise companies to search, filt…
00:47:53 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge
Josh Wolfe co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. …
00:49:09 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (Grammarly) - Responsible AI Innovation
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury is Grammarly’s CEO as of May 1, 2023. He was previously the company’s Global Head of Product, overseeing everything that makes the company’s writing assistance software tick, mana…
00:45:56 |
Wed 31 May 2023
Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe) - Scaling Operations and People
Claire Hughes Johnson is a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. From 2014 to 2021, Claire served as Stripe’s Chi…
00:49:16 |
Wed 24 May 2023
Julia Collins (Planet FWD) - Opportunities in Climate Tech
Julia Collins is the founder and CEO of Planet FWD, which is empowering the next generation of sustainable consumer companies with its climate management platform. Planet FWD is focused on decarboniz…
00:46:47 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Ben Collier and James Kanoff (The Farmlink Project) - Students Solving Hunger
Ben Collier and James Kanoff are two co-founders of The Farmlink Project, a student-led movement that has provided over 100 million pounds of nutritious food to communities facing hunger in the Unite…
00:49:20 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Frederic Kerrest (Okta) - The Truth about Entrepreneurship
Frederic Kerrest is the executive vice chairman and co-founder of Okta. He is responsible for Okta's day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on the company's…
00:47:35 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) - Inside OpenAI
Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, which aims to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the archit…
00:50:45 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Deb Liu (Ancestry) - The Power of Scrappiness
Deb Liu is the CEO of Ancestry. With over 19 years in the tech industry, she has been named one of Business Insider’s most powerful female engineers and one of PaymentsSource’s most influential women…
00:45:18 |
Wed 19 Apr 2023
Karabo Morule (Capital Art) - African Art Activism through Fintech
Karabo Morule is the founder of Capital Art, which is an art fintech and the first art collection management service that is focused on collectors of modern and contemporary African art. Morule is al…
00:49:21 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Connie Chan (Andreessen Horowitz) - Career Advice from a VC Pro
Connie Chan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based technology venture capital firm with $35B in assets under management across multiple funds, where she focuses on invest…
00:45:30 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
Austin Russell (Luminar) - Behind the Scenes of a Mega-Unicorn
Austin Russell is the founder and CEO of Luminar, the 27 year old global leader in automotive lidar hardware and software technology. Under Russell’s leadership, Luminar has developed the first lidar…
00:49:49 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Emmy Sobieski (Competitive Storytelling, Inc.) - Build Wealth with Personal Skills
Emmy Sobieski, CFA, is the chief operating officer of Competitive Storytelling, Inc., which helps venture-backed founders from seed and beyond tell their story through methods such as the Founder Fun…
00:52:41 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
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