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
2020 Insight: Infusing Decisions with Principles
In this special micro-episode of ETL, Stanford professor Tom Byers reflects on his key entrepreneurial takeaway from 2020. In a year that defied expectations, Byers underscores that more than ever, e…
00:06:16 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
2020 Insight: Innovating at a Distance
In this special micro-episode of ETL, Stanford professor of the practice Tina Seelig reflects on her key entrepreneurial takeaway from 2020. Seelig observes that, especially in times of great change …
00:07:27 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities
In December 2018, Sarah Friar was named CEO of Nextdoor, the world’s largest private social network for neighborhoods. Prior to leading Nextdoor, she was CFO of Square and SVP of Finance & Strategy a…
00:45:48 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - The Language of Technology
Ravi Mhatre is a founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and focuses primarily on software/cloud infrastructure, applications and internet investments. Before starting Lightspeed, Mhatre was …
00:41:43 |
Wed 11 Nov 2020
Jessica Norwood (RUNWAY) and Rodney Sampson (OHUB) - Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice
Jessica Norwood is the founder of RUNWAY, an organization that uses entrepreneurship to close the wealth gap in Black communities by providing pre-seed and friends-and-family capital to fund Black-ow…
00:49:16 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santi Subotovksy (Emergence Capital) - Winning a Crowded Market
After growing and leading the team that developed WebEx, Eric Yuan left his role as Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco in 2011 to found Zoom Video Communications. Santiago Subotovsky, a…
00:48:18 |
Wed 28 Oct 2020
Sylvia Acevedo (Path to the Stars) - Perseverance Creates Opportunity
An entrepreneur, investor, business leader, and rocket-scientist, Sylvia Acevedo is the author of Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, which tells the story of her journ…
00:47:23 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
George Scangos (Vir Biotechnology) - Making a Difference in Biotech
As the president and CEO of Vir Biotechnology, as well as in his role as head of BIO’s Coronavirus Collaboration Initiative, George Scangos has emerged as a global leader in the fight against COVID-1…
00:43:41 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Delane Parnell (PlayVS) - Extreme Focus
Delane Parnell is the founder and CEO of PlayVS, which is building the technology infrastructure for high school and college esports leagues. Prior to starting PlayVS, Parnell worked at IncWell Ventu…
00:45:26 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
Shellye Archambeau (Verizon) - Taking Risks and Breaking Barriers
An experienced tech exec, Shellye Archambeau serves on the boards of Verizon and Nordstrom as well as several other companies. She is the former CEO of MetricStream, a Silicon Valley-based governance…
00:46:12 |
Wed 30 Sep 2020
Adam Pisoni (Abl) - Innovating for Equity
How social enterprises can operationalize equity.
00:48:28 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) - Disruption and Abundance
Ann Miura-Ko is a lecturer in Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering and a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a VC firm focused on seed-stage investments. A repeat member of the F…
00:49:13 |
Wed 26 Aug 2020
Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Change Moves at the Speed of Trust
Description goes here.On November 8, 2016, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton, California. Upon taking office in January 2017, Tubbs became both Stockton’s younge…
00:43:43 |
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Kevin Weil (Novi) - Improving Product Design
Kevin Weil is the VP of Product for Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet for the Libra payment system. Previously, Weil was VP of Product at Instagram (overseeing consumer, growth, and monetization produc…
00:47:03 |
Wed 12 Aug 2020
Amy Chang (Cisco) - Networking with Curiosity
Amy Chang is an executive vice president at Cisco. Following the acquisition of her startup Accompany by Cisco in 2018, she led Cisco's multi-billion dollar Collaboration business and its Webex portf…
00:43:20 |
Wed 05 Aug 2020
Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Empowering Girls with STEM
Debbie Sterling is the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, an award-winning children’s multimedia company known for disrupting the “pink aisle” in toy stores around the world, and challenging gender stere…
00:46:42 |
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Jeff Seibert (Digits) - Making Remote Work Better
Jeff Seibert is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor. His current focus is Digits, which he co-founded in 2018 to build modern, intelligent, real-time finance tools for business owners. Se…
00:48:19 |
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - Cultivate Creativity and Courage
Olympian in luge, television reporter, airline pilot, and venture capitalist… Bonny Simi’s career path has been anything but linear. Simi is now the president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the vent…
00:47:35 |
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Beverly Parenti & Chris Redlitz (The Last Mile) and Ray Harts (Healthy Hearts Institute) - Growing a Social Venture
Beverly Parenti and Chris Redlitz are the co-founders of The Last Mile, an organization that aims to break the cycle of incarceration by providing education and career training opportunities in priso…
00:47:41 |
Wed 08 Jul 2020
Joe DeSimone (Carbon) - The Case for Convergence
Joe DeSimone is the founder and executive chairman of Carbon, a global company that is driving the evolution of 3D printing from a prototyping tool into a scalable manufacturing technology. As a prof…
00:47:33 |
Wed 01 Jul 2020
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