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
Russ Altman (Stanford University) & Kim Branson (GSK) - Principled Engineering: AI and Drug Development
Russ Altman is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University. His primary research interests are …
00:58:25 |
Wed 09 Mar 2022
Paola Santana (GLASS) - Solving for Infrastructure
A lawyer, public policy expert, and tech entrepreneur, Paola Santana is the founder and CEO of GLASS, a software ecosystem using artificial intelligence to power high-performing governments. Her work…
00:56:21 |
Wed 02 Mar 2022
Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital) - Cleantech 2.0
Alongside his wife Crystal, Chris Sacca built Lowercase Capital into an extraordinarily successful VC firm, leveraging very early-stage investments in transformational technology companies like Twitt…
00:54:31 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture
Payal Kadakia is the founder of ClassPass, the health and wellness app that connects users to fitness classes and other health-positive experiences in 30 countries worldwide. Kadakia is also the fo…
00:55:20 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
Jessica McKellar (Pilot) - Serial Co-founders
Jessica McKellar is the founder and CTO of Pilot, an accounting firm powered by software that has raised more than $160 million in venture capital funding. She also founded Zulip, a group collaborati…
00:58:23 |
Wed 09 Feb 2022
Josh Giegel (Virgin Hyperloop) - A Personal Mission
Josh Giegel is the co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, a company dedicated to making hyperloop transportation a reality. Giegel founded the company in 2014, when hyperloop was an idea on a whiteboard in …
01:00:00 |
Wed 02 Feb 2022
Alexandr Wang (Scale AI) - Better AI Through Better Data
Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI. He founded Scale while at MIT at the age of 19, after recognizing that he could accelerate companies’ abilities to deploy AI by combining a machine l…
00:58:40 |
Wed 26 Jan 2022
Sara Menker and Hans Tung (Gro Intelligence and GGV Capital) - Turning Data into Action
Sara Menker is the founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, which uses data, analytics, and forecasting models to inform companies involved in the agricultural supply chain and organizations impacted by …
00:57:28 |
Wed 19 Jan 2022
James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures) - World Positive Investing
James Joaquin is the co-founder and managing director of Obvious Ventures, leading the team’s investments focused on plant-forward approaches to food (like Beyond Meat), “good for you” consumer goods…
00:54:28 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Juliet Anammah (Jumia Nigeria) - E-commerce in Africa
Juliet Anammah is the chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and the Chief Sustainability Officer of Jumia Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Africa and the first African tech startup to be listed on the…
00:54:29 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Daphne Koller (insitro) - Innovation in Ed-Tech and Biotech
Daphne Koller is the CEO and founder of insitro, a machine learning-enabled drug discovery company. Previously, she was a professor of computer science at Stanford University for 18 years, co-founder…
00:57:18 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners) - What Investors Want
It’s understandable that, amid a flurry of pitch meetings and rejections, founders might find themselves mystified about what venture capital investors want. However, according to Bessemer Venture Pa…
00:46:33 |
Wed 03 Nov 2021
Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code) - Fixing Tech’s Gender Gap
Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, and is the author of the forthcoming book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think).…
00:59:52 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
James Reinhart (thredUp) - Scaling Sustainable Fashion
James Reinhart is the co-founder and CEO of thredUP, one of the world's largest online resale platforms. thredUP designed a digital resale experience that aims to take the work and risk out of thrift…
00:51:52 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Lynda Kate Smith (mParticle) - Marketing for Entrepreneurs
As the Chief Marketing Officer for companies that have included Twilio, Jive, Genpact, Nuance, and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Lynda Kate Smith has owned go-to-market strategy and full m…
00:54:45 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
Justin Kan (Twitch) - Finding Fulfillment in Entrepreneurship
Justin Kan is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Twitch. In 2006, Kan launched the live video service Justin.tv, a company that started when he strapped a camera to his head…
00:57:35 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Research Insight: Entrepreneurship Education Is About More than Startup Creation
In a recent paper, Stanford professor Chuck Eesley and Notre Dame professor Yong Suk Lee observed that formal entrepreneurship education helped Stanford alumni founders raise more funding and scale m…
00:20:45 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures) - The New Angel Investing
Ashley Flucas is the founder and general partner of Flucas Ventures. Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the syndicate of around 2,000 angel investors has invested in more than 200 startups. Flucas, a…
00:48:45 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Jon Zieger (Responsible Technology Labs) - What is Responsible Innovation?
Jon Zieger is a co-founder and the executive director of Responsible Innovation Labs, a nonprofit working to create tools and standards to help innovative companies scale responsibly. He was previous…
00:49:31 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
Tom Eisenmann (Harvard Business School) - Why Startups Fail
Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs; and faculty co-chair of the HBS Rock Cen…
00:51:23 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
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