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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
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 is produced by Stanford eCorner during fall, winter and spring quarters.
Episodes
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- Josh Makower (Stanford University) – The Biodesign Innovation Process
- John Felts (Cruz Foam) - Engineering Green Materials
- Kristen Fortney (BioAge) - Derisking Biotech
- Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital) - Developing a Founder’s Mindset
- Jorge Rios (Bridgefy) - Seizing Global Opportunities
- Patrick Schmitt and Jenny Xia Spradling (FreeWill) - Building From Values
- Irma Olguin, Jr. (Bitwise Industries) and Morgan Simon (Candide Group) - Innovating for Social Impact
- Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) - Finding a Deeper Purpose
- Russ Altman (Stanford University) & Kim Branson (GSK) - Principled Engineering: AI and Drug Development
- Paola Santana (GLASS) - Solving for Infrastructure
- Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital) - Cleantech 2.0
- Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture
- Jessica McKellar (Pilot) - Serial Co-founders
- Josh Giegel (Virgin Hyperloop) - A Personal Mission
- Alexandr Wang (Scale AI) - Better AI Through Better Data
- Sara Menker and Hans Tung (Gro Intelligence and GGV Capital) - Turning Data into Action
- James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures) - World Positive Investing
- Juliet Anammah (Jumia Nigeria) - E-commerce in Africa
- Daphne Koller (insitro) - Innovation in Ed-Tech and Biotech
- Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners) - What Investors Want
- Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code) - Fixing Tech’s Gender Gap
- James Reinhart (thredUp) - Scaling Sustainable Fashion
- Lynda Kate Smith (mParticle) - Marketing for Entrepreneurs
- Justin Kan (Twitch) - Finding Fulfillment in Entrepreneurship
- Research Insight: Entrepreneurship Education Is About More than Startup Creation
- Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures) - The New Angel Investing
- Jon Zieger (Responsible Technology Labs) - What is Responsible Innovation?
- Tom Eisenmann (Harvard Business School) - Why Startups Fail
- Nicole Diaz (Snap Inc.) - How to Build an Ethical Company
- Jannick Malling (Public.com) - Social Fintech
- Andre Iguodala (Miami Heat) and Rudy Cline-Thomas (Mastry) - Bridging the Gap Between Sports and Tech
- Maëlle Gavet (Techstars) - Ruthless Empathy
- Howie Liu (Airtable) - Building Startups, Fast and Slow
- Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures) - Diverse Businesses Are Better Businesses
- Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare) - Scaling with Resilience
- Othman Laraki (Color) - It’s All About Access
- ETL Returns April 14!
- Research Insight: New Data on Lean Startup
- Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst) - Build, Don’t Break
- Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation
- Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix) - Making Entrepreneurship More Inclusive
- David Rogier (MasterClass) - Finding the Right Motivation
- Vlad Tenev (Robinhood) - Weathering a Storm
- Stephanie Lampkin (Blendoor) - Data-Powered Diversity
- Tony Mugavero (Rad) - Hype vs. Reality in VR
- Alyssa Ravasio (Hipcamp) - A New Approach to the Great Outdoors
- ETL Returns on January 27!
- 2020 Insight: Start with Just One Thing
- 2020 Insight: Connecting the Dots
- 2020 Insight: a Lens of Racial Equity
- 2020 Insight: Infusing Decisions with Principles
- 2020 Insight: Innovating at a Distance
- Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities
- Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - The Language of Technology
- Jessica Norwood (RUNWAY) and Rodney Sampson (OHUB) - Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice
- Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santi Subotovksy (Emergence Capital) - Winning a Crowded Market
- Sylvia Acevedo (Path to the Stars) - Perseverance Creates Opportunity
- George Scangos (Vir Biotechnology) - Making a Difference in Biotech
- Delane Parnell (PlayVS) - Extreme Focus
- Shellye Archambeau (Verizon) - Taking Risks and Breaking Barriers
- ETL Returns Sept. 30!
- Adam Pisoni (Abl) - Innovating for Equity
- Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) - Disruption and Abundance
- Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Change Moves at the Speed of Trust
- Kevin Weil (Novi) - Improving Product Design
- Amy Chang (Cisco) - Networking with Curiosity
- Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Empowering Girls with STEM
- Jeff Seibert (Digits) - Making Remote Work Better
- Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - Cultivate Creativity and Courage
- Beverly Parenti & Chris Redlitz (The Last Mile) and Ray Harts (Healthy Hearts Institute) - Growing a Social Venture
- Joe DeSimone (Carbon) - The Case for Convergence
- Julie Zhuo (Inspirit) - How to Learn from Users
- ETL Returns on June 24!
- Kevin Systrom (Instagram) - How Instagram Scaled
- Alexi Robichaux (BetterUp) - Uncompromising Values
- Ethan Brown (Beyond Meat) - Reimagining Meat
- Andy Karsner (X) - Designing for Natural Security
- Joseph Tsai (Alibaba Group) - From Alibaba to the NBA
- Amy Francetic (Buoyant Ventures) - The Evolution of Clean Tech Investing
- Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures) - Leadership in a Crisis
- Annie Kadavy (Redpoint Ventures) - Venture Capital Decisionmaking
- ETL returns April 15!
- Ravi Belani (Stanford University) - Building Billion Dollar Businesses
- Mark Gainey (Strava) - How Strava Found its Niche
- Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) - Strategies for Student Entrepreneurs
- Omar Tawakol (Voicea) - The Future of Voice
- Kate Rosenbluth (Cala Health) - A Needs-Based Innovation Framework
- Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living) - Scaling with Purpose
- Melinda Thomas (Octave Bioscience) - The Courage to Begin
- Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind
- ETL returns Jan. 22!
- Designing the Life You Really Want - From the ETL Archive
- Laura Gomez (Atipica) - The Need for Inclusive AI
- Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work - From the ETL Archive
- Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital) - Underestimated
- Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) - Unicorn Lessons
- Srin Madipalli (Airbnb) - The Future is Accessible
- Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly) - Software is Hard Work
- Barbara Liskov (MIT) - Finding the Great Problems
- Jennifer Tejada (PagerDuty) - Resilience is Everything
- Sarah Nahm (Lever) - Redesigning the CEO [Explicit]
- ETL Returns Oct 9!
- Sickamore (Interscope Records) and Sam Seidel (Stanford d.school) - Inside the Studio
- Christine Yen (Honeycomb.io) - Creating a Buzz Around B2B Software
- Matthew Sacks and Lauren Perkins (Luminary Media) - Listening to the Market
- Chip Conley (Modern Elder Academy) - How to Adapt and Flow
- Toby Corey (Stanford University) - The Zen of Entrepreneurship
- Payam Banazadeh (Capella Space) - Prepare to Launch
- Nicole Hu (One Concern) - Strategies to Fight Disaster
- Ritu Narayan (Zūm) - Sustaining a Startup's Growth
- Freada Kapor Klein (Kapor Capital) - Closing Tech's Diversity Gap
- The Upside of Quitting: A Taste of LEAP!
- Alberto Savoia (Google) - Build the Right It
- Navin Chaddha (Mayfield) - Building a People-First Company
- Alice Zhang (Verge Genomics) - When DNA Meets AI
- Raj Kapoor (Lyft) and John Viera (Ford Motor Company) - Mobilizing the Future
- Balaji Srinivasan (Coinbase) - Building the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
- Elaine Wherry (Meebo) - Climbing the Ladder
- Damien Patton (Banjo) - The Intelligent Entrepreneur
- Ryan Petersen (Flexport) - Modernizing the Shipping Industry
- Dan Widmaier (Bolt Threads) - Design to Disrupt
- Brad Bao (Lime) - Innovation Driven By Sustainability
- Emily Melton (Threshold) - Focus On Forward Momentum
- Adam Pisoni (Abl Schools) - Let Your Customers Educate You
- Tina Seelig with Steve Garrity (Hearsay Systems) and Juliet Rothenberg (DeepMind) - Find Your Superpower, Launch Your Career
- Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) - Strike the EQ/IQ Balance in Venture Capital
- Manish Chandra (Poshmark) - Channeling an Adaptive Mindset
- Maureen Fan (Baobab Studios) - Animating Against the Grain
- Nancy Koehn (Harvard Business School), Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Tenacious Compassion: Leading Through the Storm
- Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital) - Focus on Users to Solve Problems
- Lisa Alderson (Genome Medical) - Dare to Stretch Your Boundaries
- Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia) - A Burnout Manifesto
- Joshua Hoffman (Zymergen) - Insights of an Accidental Entrepreneur
- Chip Heath (Stanford University) - How Organizations Can Win Our Hearts
- Tracy Chou (Project Include) - Debugging the Brogrammer Culture
- Julayne Virgil (Girls Inc.) - The Courage to Take Positive Risks
- David Baszucki (Roblox) - When the Platform is Your Product
- Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) - Elements of Effective Leadership
- Josh McFarland (Greylock Partners) - Answering Common Startup Questions
- M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford (Conservation International) - Scaling Sustainability
- Eurie Kim (Forerunner Ventures) - How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You
- Chris Anderson (3D Robotics) - The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup
- Sameer Dholakia (SendGrid) - Focus On People
- Leila Janah (Samasource) - Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work
- Chris Gerdes (Stanford University) - Ingenuity Derived from Self-Driving Cars
- Patrick Brown (Impossible Foods) - Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change
- Anne Wojcicki (23andMe) - Driving Discovery and Disruption
- Amy Chang (Accompany) - Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing
- Tristan Harris (Time Well Spent) - Making Technology Less Manipulative
- Catherine Berman (CNote) - Embrace Your Otherness
- Rich Barton (Zillow Group) - Empower People with Information
- Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - How to Outwit Workplace Jerks
- Sandy Jen (Honor) - The Rewards of Taking Risks
- Bob Sutton (Stanford University), Patty McCord (Patty McCord Consulting) - ETL Takeover: A Taste of FRICTION
- Toni Townes-Whitley (Microsoft) - The Ethics of Innovation
- David Eagleman (Stanford School of Medicine) - A Brainy Approach to Innovation
- Carlos Watson (Ozy Media) - Taking a Lead From Tech
- Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson (Zoox) - Self-Driving Cars for Everyone
- Kevin Weil (Instagram) - Unfiltered Insights From Instagram
- Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker), Judah Pollack (Riverene Leadership) - Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking
- Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle
- Tracy Young (PlanGrid), Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital) - Solve the Problem You Have
- Shirzad Chamine (Positive Intelligence, Inc.) - The Enlightened Entrepreneur
- Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze) - Driving Growth + Authenticity
- Dave Evans (Stanford Life Design Lab) - Designing the Life You Really Want
- Susan Feldman (One Kings Lane) - Bootstrapping with Flair
- Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania) - Six Ways to be an ‘Original’
- Meg Whitman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - Lessons in Situational Leadership
- Brendan Boyle (IDEO) - Playing With Purpose
- Bob Tinker (MobileIron) - Evolving With Your Company
- Margaret Anne Neale (Stanford Graduate School of Business) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Margaret Anne Neale
- Jay Kaplan (Synack) - Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity
- Julie Zhuo (Facebook) - How a Facebook Designer Thinks
- Michael Ackermann (Allergan) - A Tearful Tale of Biodesign
- Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Entrepreneurship Strengthens a Nation
- Etosha Cave (Opus 12), Jonah Greenberger (Bright, Inc.), Cody Karutz (STRIVR Labs, Inc.), Elaine Cheung (GRAIL, Inc.) - Returning With Real-World Wisdom
- Jane Chen (Embrace Innovations) - Embrace the Entrepreneurial Journey
- Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - An Entrepreneurial Mindset — Applied to You
- Joseph DeSimone (Carbon3D, Inc.) - Convergence Drives New Ideas
- Michael Terrell (Terrell Leadership Group) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Michael Terrell
- Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education
- William Perry (Stanford University) - Dedication to Innovation and Nation
- Bobby Lee (BTCC) - Why Bitcoin Makes Sense
- Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson (Play Bigger Advisors) - How to Be a Category King
- DJ Kleinbaum (Emerald Therapeutics) - Contrarian Truths Empowering Innovation
- Astro Teller (X) - Celebrating Failure Fuels Moonshots
- Bernard Roth (Stanford University) - Reframing Problems and Getting Honest
- Derek Belch (STRIVR Labs) - Immersed in Virtual Reality
- Minnie Ingersoll (Shift) - A Drive to Disrupt
- Federica Marchionni (Lands' End) - Embracing the Non-Obvious
- James Freeman (Blue Bottle Coffee) - Subtle Notes of Coffee and Philosophy
- Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) - Why Company Culture is Crucial
- John Hennessy (Stanford University) - Great Leadership Can Be Learned
- Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Dare to Do Legendary Things
- Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital), Lisa Sugar (Popsugar) - Follow Your Instincts and Find Your Path
- Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Solving Social Ills Through Innovation
- Brit Morin (Brit + Co) - Inspiring Creativity with Great Content
- Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Venture Fund) - Creating Your Own Canvas
- Scott Cook (Intuit) - Accounting for Intuit's Success
- Lyndon Rive (Solar City) - The Science and Incentives Behind Solar
- James Beshara (Tilt) - Building Insights with Bricks and Mortar
- Jeff Seibert (Twitter) - Acquisitions: Lessons from All Sides
- Elon Musk (SpaceX) - Elon Musk's Vision for the Future
- Astro Teller (X), Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Christina Smolke (Stanford University School of Medicine) - Forecasting the Future of Technology
- Stewart Butterfield (Slack) - Serendipity in Design and Entrepreneurship
- Susan Koger (ModCloth) - Find Your Venture's Emotional Core
- William Marshall (Planet Labs) - Entrepreneurship Takes Flight
- Chinedu Echeruo (Constant Capital Partners) - Creativity Unleashes Value for the World
- Mike Rothenberg (Rothenberg Ventures) - Blue is Where You Should Be
- Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Simple Rules for a Complex World
- Kyle Forster (Big Switch Networks) - Non-Linear Path to Leadership
- Ron Gutman (HealthTap) - Impact Will Keep You Motivated
- Sean George (Invitae) - Experience is Your Reward
- Laurene Powell Jobs (Emerson Collective) - Injecting Innovation into Intractable Systems
- Joshua Reeves (Gusto) - The Startup Journey: A Marathon, Not a Sprint
- John Collison (Stripe) - Putting Startup Success in Perspective
- Kathryn Gould (Foundation Capital) - Figure Out What's Important
- Alon Cohen (Houzz) - Making Complicated Things Simple
- Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang Architects) - Growing a Creative Company
- Shah Selbe (National Geographic Society) - Find Your Niche, Help the World
- Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America) - Make Government Work Better for All
- Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) - Nailing the Hard Things
- Tina Wells (Buzz Marketing Group) - Consumers and Brands in the Digital Age
- Jennifer Carolan (New Schools Seed Fund) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education
- Lewis Cirne (New Relic) - Life is Too Short for Bad Software
- Matt Rogers (Nest) - Tackle Projects Others Don't Want
- Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - From Inspiration to Implementation
- Liz Wiseman (Author) - The Power of Not Knowing
- Kevin Hartz and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite) - Optimal Traits and Sustainable Advantages
- Heidi Roizen (Threshold) - Adventures in Entrepreneurship
- Leah Busque (TaskRabbit) - Do Something You Love
- Geoff Donaker (Yelp) - The Road to IPO
- Linda Rottenberg (Endeavor) - Crazy is a Compliment
- Ed Catmull (Disney/Pixar Animation) - Creativity, Inc.
- Morris Chang (Taiwan Semiconductor) - An Emphasis on Excellence
- Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined
- Tristan Walker (Walker and Company) - Be an Authentic Entrepreneur
- Cameron Teitelman (StartX), Joseph Huang (WifiSLAM), Milt McColl (Gauss Surgical), Smita Saxena (SpotOn) - Acceleration Through Community
- Hemant Shah (RMS) - A True Model for Embracing Change
- Cameron Strang (Warner Bros. Records), Nate Ruess (fun.) - The Music Industry Unplugged
- Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Scaling Up Excellence
- Gurjeet Singh and Gunnar Carlsson (Ayasdi) - Shaping the Future of Data
- William Hsu (MuckerLab) - Moving from Hubris to Confidence
- Halle Tecco (Rock Health) - Accelerating Real Change in Healthcare
- Sharon Vosmek (Astia) - The Path to More Inclusive Innovation
- Mike Olson (Cloudera) - Opportunities Abound in the Big Data Space
- Scott Harrison (charity: water) - Thirsting for a Life of Service
- Bill Drayton (Ashoka) - A World of Changemakers
- Steve Teig (Tabula) - Revel in the Adventure of New Ideas
- Cyriac Roeding (Shopkick) - You Have to Break the Egg
- Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) - Realizing Innovation at Enterprise Scale
- Matthew Rabinowitz (Natera) - There is Always a Way Forward
- Ferdinando Buscema (Magic Experience Designer) - Magician Leadership
- Jocelyn Goldfein (Facebook) - Deep Inside Facebook
- Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti (KickLabs; The Last Mile), Heracio Harts (The Last Mile) - From Lockup to Startup
- Justin Rosenstein (Asana) - Leading Big Visions From the Heart
- Kate Mitchell (Scale Venture Partners) - Own Your Own Success
- Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta (Pulse) - What You Learn by Doing
- Monica Lam (Stanford University) - Mobile Can Disrupt Social
- Nassim Taleb (Author) - How Things Gain from Disorder
- Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media) - Create More Value Than You Capture
- Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu (Skybox Imaging) - Launching into Uncharted Space
- Stephen Cohen (Palantir) - The Path to Palantir
- Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures) - An Enterprising Approach to Investment
- Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) - Calling All Entrepreneurial Heroes
- John Lilly (Greylock Partners) - White Space is Everywhere
- Steven McCormick (Moore Foundation) - Drive Change Through Entrepreneurship
- Hank Wuh (Skai Ventures) - Disruptive Innovation Can Happen Anywhere
- Sue Siegel (GE) - A Healthy Respect for Innovation
- Melinda Gates (Gates Foundation) - Pursue Passions with a Vengeance
- Jess Lee (Polyvore) - Path and Purpose of a First-TIme CEO
- Noam Wasserman (Harvard Business School) - The Founder's Dilemmas
- Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Steve Garrity (Hearsay Social), Kit Rodgers (Cryptography Research), Divya Nag (Stem Cell Theranostics) - Impact: Stanford Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures) - Timing Matters
- Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker) - Build Your Personal Charisma
- Drew Houston (Dropbox) - Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
- Adam Lashinsky (Author) - Secrets at Apple's Core
- Daniel Ek (Spotify) - A Playlist for Entrepreneurs
- Brian Murray (HarperCollins) - A Story of Change and Opportunity
- Rebeca Hwang (YouNoodle), Elizabeth Samara-Rubio (StorWatts) - Small Acts and Big Impacts
- Gale Anne Hurd (Film and Television Producer) - Producing a Career from the Ground Up
- Jeff Church (Nika Water) - The Wave of Social Entrepreneurship
- Sandra Kurtzig (Kenandy, ASK Group), Andy Kurtzig (JustAnswer) - Two Generations of Entrepreneurship
- Kristina Johnson (Enduring Energy) - Energies that Power a Career
- Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Live Life in Permanent Beta
- Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (JOYUS) - Find Your Vector of Impact
- Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Embrace Uncertainty
- Ted Zoller (Kauffman Foundation) - Building an Entrepreneurial Career
- Alexander Osterwalder (Author) - Tools for Business Model Generation
- Deborah Hopkins (Citi) - Talking About a Revolution
- Jessica Mah (inDinero) - A Startup is a Learning Experience
- Dana Mead (KPCB) - Understanding Venture Capital
- Adam Lowry (Method) - Method to Success
- Marten Mickos (Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL AB) - Believe In Something Bigger Than Yourself
- Scott Summit (Bespoke Innovations) - Products With a Purpose
- Brad Feld (Foundry Group, TechStars) - Great Entrepreneurs Go Out and Do
- Phil Libin (Evernote) - No Exit Strategy for Your Life's Work
- David Friedberg (the Climate Corporation) - Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning
- Aneesh Chopra (US Office of Science and Technology) - Innovate for America
- Wences Casares (Bling Nation & Lemon Bank) - The Value of True Partnerships
- Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram) - From Stanford to Startup
- Geoffrey Moore (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - Reach Your Escape Velocity
- Richard Scheller (Genentech) - Developing Products that Save Lives
- Ori Brafman (Author) - How to Build Instant Connections
- Barry Silbert (SecondMarket, Inc.) - A New Vision for Capital Markets
- Jennifer Morris (Conservation International) - Effective Models for Sustainable Growth
- Guy Kawasaki (Garage Technology Ventures) - Creating Enchantment
- Bill Gross (Idealab & eSolar) - A Devotion to New Ideas
- Mark Forchette (OptiMedica) - Live for the Future and Survive Success
- Jack Dorsey (Square) - The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration
- Susan Desmond-Hellmann (UCSF) - Relentless Pursuit of Innovation
- Brent Constantz (Calera) - Following Your Startup Vision
- Aaron Levie (Box.net) - Delivering Innovation for the Enterprise
- Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) - Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education
- Jennifer Aaker (Stanford University, GSB) - How Ideas Take Flight
- Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - What Great Leaders Do
- Diego Piacentini (Amazon) - Customer Focus Builds Global Growth
- Ann Miura-Ko (FLOODGATE) - Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs
- Thomas Prescott (Align Technology) - Leadership and Disruptive Technologies
- Mark Suster (Serial Entrepreneur) - Honest Advice on Starting a Company
- Dan Rosensweig (Chegg), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital) - Solving Problems Makes a Great Business
- Amit Chatterjee (Hara, Inc.) - Entrepreneurial Lessons: Find Value and Make Impact
- Juan Andrés Fontaine (Chilean Government) - Chile: Launching a Global Entrepreneurship Hub
- Alec Ross (Advisor to US Secretary of State) - The Diplomacy of Technology
- Josh Makower (ExploraMed) - The Perfect Storm in MedTech
- Marc Andreessen (Serial Entrepreneur) - A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond
- Lisa Lambert (Intel Capital) - Investing for Market Strategy and Capital
- Tom Conrad (Pandora) - A Pandora's Box of Start-up Expertise
- Carlos Perea (Miox) - The Ebb and Flow of Clean Tech and Entrepreneurs
- John Seely Brown (Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation) - Collaborative Innovation and a Pull Economy
- Polly Sumner (salesforce.com), Liz Tinkham (Accenture) - Success and Failure Drive Innovation
- Steve Case (AOL, Revolution) - People, Passion, Perseverance: You've Got Entrepreneurship
- Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle (SlideShare) - Sharing a Measure of Success
- Steve Garrity and Clara Shih (Hearsay Social), Jeff Seibert (Twitter), Joshua Reeves (Gusto), Tristan Harris (Apture) - Panel of Young Entrepreneurs
- William Hagstrom (Crescendo Bioscience) - Entrepreneurial Journeys in Healthcare
- Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (Stanford University) - Risky Business: Analysis from an Engineering Perspective
- David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) - Unlearn Your MBA
- John Adler (Accuray), Trip Adler (Scribd) - Evolution of a CEO
- Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Fall 2009 Quarter Roundup: What Did We Learn?
- Chamillionaire (Music Artist & Performer), Quincy Jones III (QD3 Entertainment) - Successful Independent Promotion: From Artist to Entrepreneur
- Mark Pincus (Zynga) - A Serious Take on Internet Game Play
- Craig Barrett (Intel Corporation (Formerly)) - A Historical Perspective on Semiconductors and Moore's Law
- Greg Papadopoulos (Sun Microsystems) - Responsible Engineering in the Modern Age
- Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) - Innovation in a Disruptive Environment
- Eric Ries (Author) - Evangelizing for the Lean Startup
- Robin Li (Baidu) - Lessons From China: The Evolution of The Globe's Largest Search Engine
- Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - The Art of Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Steve Westly (the Westly Group) - Clean Tech Challenges and Solutions
- Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) - Inside the Mind of a Reluctant Entrepreneur
- Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) - The Future of Microsoft, The Future of Technology
- Jennifer Scott Fonstad (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Steve Perricone (BioFuelBox) - Under the Lid of BioFuelBox
- Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) - Spotlight on Scalability
- Mari Baker (PlayFirst) - Building an Organization, Building a Team
- Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) - Vision Matters
- Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn) - What is the Next Big Thing?
- John Hennessy (Stanford University) - Innovation as the Crux of Entrepreneurship
- Tom Siebel (First Virtual Group) - Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace
- Spencer E. Ante (BusinessWeek) - A History of Venture Capital
- Teresa Briggs (Deloitte Silicon Valley) - Making a Big Company Feel Small
- Soujanya Bhumkar, Josh Schwarzapel and Austin Shoemaker (Cooliris) - The Growth and Bloom of Cooliris
- Hugh Martin (Pacific Biosciences) - 13 Mistakes and 13 Brilliant Strokes
- Negotiating Your Career
- Tom Kelley (IDEO) - Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life
- Anna Patterson (Cuil) - A Cuil Tune-up for Search Engines
- Judy Estrin (JLABS, LLC) - Is Innovation Withering on the Vine?
- Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) - The Black Swans of Energy Invention
- William McDonough (William McDonough + Partners) - Balancing Economy, Equity, and Ecology Through Design
- Erik Straser (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - The Next Wave of Industry: Global Clean Tech
- Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Retooling Early Stage Development
- Beth Seidenberg (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) - A VC Perspective on the Life Sciences
- John Melo (Amyris Biotechnologies) - Under the Microscope: Socially Responsible Biotech
- Larry Brilliant (Google.org) - The Next Wave of Corporate Philanthropy
- Sue Decker (Yahoo! Inc.) - The Evolution of Yahoo!
- Anand Chandrasekaran (Aeroprise) - Unreeling the Documentary Film
- Peter Diamandis (X PRIZE Foundation) - Rewarding Sky-High Innovation
- David Rothkopf (Author) - Concentrated Power in a Global Economy
- Jeff Housenbold (Shutterfly) - Entrepreneurship that Clicks
- Ken Wilcox (Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group) - Banking on Corporate Culture and Strategy
- Debra Dunn (Skoll Foundation), Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy (B Corporation) - Representing the Socially Responsible Enterprise
- Mir Imran (InCube Labs) - Healthy Entrepreneurship in Medical Devices
- Brett Crosby (Google Analytics) - The Path to an Acquisition
- Christine Benninger (Humane Society of Silicon Valley) - Entrepreneurial Practices for High-Impact Non-Profits
- Jesse Fink (MissionPoint Capital Partners), Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Intersection of the Environment and Financial Markets
- Ron Conway (Angel Investors LP), Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Angel Investing Revealed
- Mitch Kapor (Foxmarks) - How to Build a Successful Company
- Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent) - Delivering a Digital Torrent
- Armen Berjikly (Experience Project) - Connecting Common Experiences
- Larry Bawden (Jadoo Power) - The Growth of Solar Ventures
- Stan Christensen (Stanford Technology Ventures Program; Arbor Advisors) - The Art of Negotiation
- Dominic Orr (Aruba Networks) - Startups: The Need for Speed
- Martin Eberhard (Tesla Motors) - Lessons from the Electric Roadster
- Donna Novitsky (STVP) - From Venture Capitalist to Entrepreneur
- Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - The No Jerk Rule
- Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Corporation) - Community-Based Organizations
- Stan Christensen Interviews Secretary George P. Shultz on Negotiation
- Negotiations on and Off the Field
- Andrew Frame (Ooma), Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Adventures of a Startup CEO: No Guts No Glory
- Jackie Speier (Author and Former State Senator), Deborah Stephens (Center for Innovative Leadership) - Overcoming Adversity and Taking Risks
- Carly Fiorina (Former CEO, HP) - Leadership and Choice
- Shai Agassi (SAP AG) - The Physics of Startups
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