Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
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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 publ...
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504 ਐਪੀਸੋਡSamir Vasavada (Vise) - From Teenage Founder to Tech CEO
Samir Vasavada, co-founder and CEO of Vise, shares his inspiring journey from launching an AI-powered asset management startup as a teenager to raisin...
Osi Imeokparia (Kode with Klossy) - Training Tech’s Next Gen [Entire Talk]
Founded by supermodel Karlie Kloss, Kode With Klossy teaches young women and gender expansive youth how to code. The organization supports a community...
Garrett Lord (Handshake) - The Network Effect
Garrett Lord started Handshake to make it easier for students from all backgrounds to find internships. Lord discusses his own experience studying com...
Vinay Hiremath (LoomAI) - The Uncertainty After Success [Explicit]
Vinay Hiremath shares his entrepreneurial journey as the co-founder of LoomAI, a video messaging platform that grew to 30 million users and was acquir...
Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable
Stanley Tang was a junior at Stanford when he started to explore technology solutions for small businesses. Working with local shops got him thinking...
Bonny Simi (Jet Blue & Joby Aviation) - An Entrepreneurial Mindset—Applied to You [ETL Looks Back]
In this 2016 conversation, Bonny Simi—Olympian, airline pilot, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur—explains how success is built on curiosity, creati...
Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture [ETL Looks Back]
Payal Kadakia's 2022 conversation feels as relevant as ever, highlighting the enduring importance of authenticity in strong leadership. In this episod...
Justin Kan (Twitch) - Finding Fulfillment in Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]
Justin Kan is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Twitch. In this conversation from 2021, Kan shares candid insights on the h...
Astro Teller (Alphabet’s X) - Celebrating Failure Fuels Moonshots [ETL Looks Back]
In this compelling talk from 2016, Astro Teller, director of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, X, explores how embracing failure fuels groundbreaking innov...
Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities [ETL Looks Back]
In December 2018, Sarah Jane Friar became CEO of Nextdoor, the world’s largest private social network for neighborhoods. In her conversation with Stan...
Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation [ETL Looks Back]
As autonomous vehicles continue to evolve, we’re revisiting our 2021 conversation with Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox. At the time, Zoox had recently been a...
Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle [ETL Looks Back]
Much has shifted in the landscape of gender representation in STEM fields, with women making gains in recent decades. There is an increased interest a...
Alberto Savoia (Google) - Build the Right It [ETL Looks Back]
Revisit timeless insights from Alberto Savoia, Google’s first engineering director and the driving force behind the launch of AdWords, in this re-rele...
Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge [ETL Looks Back]
For the winter 2025 installment of ETL Looks Back, we asked the team at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program to recommend some of their favorite E...
Returning With Real-World Wisdom [ETL Looks Back]
How do graduates of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program’s entrepreneurship fellows programs apply their skills in the real world? STVP’s Tina See...
Clara Shih - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]
Clara Shih is the CEO of Salesforce AI and has received recognition as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and TIME’s Most Influential...
Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]
As an entrepreneur in education, Maria Barrera, founder of Clayful, started to apply her training as a mechanical engineer to thinking about mental he...
Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia Shower) - A Burnout Manifesto [ETL Looks Back]
Burnout is familiar to all entrepreneurs and takes its toll. Gabriel Parisi-Amon, founder of Nebia, which was acquired by Brondell, takes on the “perf...
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]
Andy Dunn, founder of the menswear line Bonobos, speaks frankly about his own struggles with bipolar disorder and how his mental illness didn’t define...
Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education [ETL Looks Back]
Richard Miller was credited with reimagining undergraduate engineering education at Olin College, where he was the founding director. Miller challenge...
Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education [ETL Looks Back]
Jennifer Carolan is Co-Founder and Partner at Reach Capital. In 2014, while with the NewSchools Venture Fund, Carolan spoke with Steve Blank about the...
Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined [ETL Looks Back]
While the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders speaker series is on pause, we’re excited to bring you ETL Looks Back, a series of timely gems from our arch...
Announcing ETL Looks Back
The ETL series is currently taking a break, but don’t worry! We’ll keep your podcast feed flowing with a special ETL Looks Back series, highlighting s...
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-build...
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...
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, mark...
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 architec...
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 disc...
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-st...
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 t...
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 becom...
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 o...
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 name...
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....
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...
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, incl...
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...
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....
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...
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 lo...