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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) — 517 episodes

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Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures) - A People-Centered Journey

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Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup

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Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight

4

Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography

5

Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI

6

Sergey Brin (Google & Alphabet) - Google Origins and AI Futures

7

Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook

8

Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics

9

Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work

10

Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact

11

Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream

12

Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy

13

Tina Seelig (Stanford University) - Catching the Winds of Luck

14

Samir Vasavada (Vise) - From Teenage Founder to Tech CEO

15

Osi Imeokparia (Kode with Klossy) - Training Tech’s Next Gen [Entire Talk]

16

Garrett Lord (Handshake) - The Network Effect

17

Vinay Hiremath (LoomAI) - The Uncertainty After Success [Explicit]

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18

Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable

19

Bonny Simi (Jet Blue & Joby Aviation) - An Entrepreneurial Mindset—Applied to You [ETL Looks Back]

20

Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture [ETL Looks Back]

21

Justin Kan (Twitch) - Finding Fulfillment in Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]

22

Astro Teller (Alphabet’s X) - Celebrating Failure Fuels Moonshots [ETL Looks Back]

23

Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities [ETL Looks Back]

24

Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation [ETL Looks Back]

25

Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle [ETL Looks Back]

26

Alberto Savoia (Google) - Build the Right It [ETL Looks Back]

27

Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge [ETL Looks Back]

28

Returning With Real-World Wisdom [ETL Looks Back]

29

Clara Shih - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]

30

Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]

31

Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia Shower) - A Burnout Manifesto [ETL Looks Back]

32

Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]

33

Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education [ETL Looks Back]

34

Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education [ETL Looks Back]

35

Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined [ETL Looks Back]

36

Announcing ETL Looks Back

37

Alexandra Zatarain (Eight Sleep) - Getting to Product-Market Fit

38

Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health Tech, Mentally Healthy Startups

39

David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology

40

Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) - Lessons from a Large Founding Team

41

Margo Georgiadis (Flagship Pioneering and Montai Health) - Deep Tech Innovation

42

Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI

43

Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights

44

Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values

45

Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri (Pair Eyewear) - From Stanford Students to Co-CEOs

46

Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship

47

Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path

48

Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI

49

Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success

50

Bonus: ETL’s Emily Ma on Move Fast and Fix the Planet

51

Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]

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Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey

53

Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World

54

Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights

55

Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company

56

Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs

57

Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies

58

Andrew Ng (AI Fund) - The Near Future of AI

59

Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders

60

Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’

61

Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge

62

Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (Grammarly) - Responsible AI Innovation

63

Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe) - Scaling Operations and People

64

Julia Collins (Planet FWD) - Opportunities in Climate Tech

65

Ben Collier and James Kanoff (The Farmlink Project) - Students Solving Hunger

66

Frederic Kerrest (Okta) - The Truth about Entrepreneurship

67

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) - Inside OpenAI

68

Deb Liu (Ancestry) - The Power of Scrappiness

69

Karabo Morule (Capital Art) - African Art Activism through Fintech

70

Connie Chan (Andreessen Horowitz) - Career Advice from a VC Pro

71

Austin Russell (Luminar) - Behind the Scenes of a Mega-Unicorn

72

Emmy Sobieski (Competitive Storytelling, Inc.) - Build Wealth with Personal Skills

73

Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy) - Lessons from a Stanford Success

74

Dave Vasen (brightwheel) - Problem-Solving for a Unique Market

75

Annie Hockey (Column) - Reimagining Fintech

76

Elise Densborn (Splendid Spoon) - From Customer to Co-CEO

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Dante Disparte (Circle) - Ethical Crypto Innovation

78

Trevor Martin (Mammoth Biosciences) and Ursheet Parikh (Mayfield) - Building Biotech to Last

79

Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) - Breaking the Venture Capital Mold

80

Jerrica Kirkley (Plume) and Kiki Freedman (Hey Jane) - Transforming Digital Healthcare

81

Lisa Dyson (Air Protein) - Changing Processes for Climate Solutions

82

Tim Brown (Allbirds) - Innovating for a Sustainable World

83

Meirav Oren (Versatile) - Forging Your Path as a New Founder

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Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft) - Innovating Accessibly

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Josh Makower (Stanford University) – The Biodesign Innovation Process

86

John Felts (Cruz Foam) - Engineering Green Materials

87

Kristen Fortney (BioAge) - Derisking Biotech

88

Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital) - Developing a Founder’s Mindset

89

Jorge Rios (Bridgefy) - Seizing Global Opportunities

90

Patrick Schmitt and Jenny Xia Spradling (FreeWill) - Building From Values

91

Irma Olguin, Jr. (Bitwise Industries) and Morgan Simon (Candide Group) - Innovating for Social Impact

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Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) - Finding a Deeper Purpose

93

Russ Altman (Stanford University) & Kim Branson (GSK) - Principled Engineering: AI and Drug Development

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Paola Santana (GLASS) - Solving for Infrastructure

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Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital) - Cleantech 2.0

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Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture

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Jessica McKellar (Pilot) - Serial Co-founders

98

Josh Giegel (Virgin Hyperloop) - A Personal Mission

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Alexandr Wang (Scale AI) - Better AI Through Better Data

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Sara Menker and Hans Tung (Gro Intelligence and GGV Capital) - Turning Data into Action

101

James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures) - World Positive Investing

102

Juliet Anammah (Jumia Nigeria) - E-commerce in Africa

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Daphne Koller (insitro) - Innovation in Ed-Tech and Biotech

104

Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners) - What Investors Want

105

Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code) - Fixing Tech’s Gender Gap

106

James Reinhart (thredUp) - Scaling Sustainable Fashion

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Lynda Kate Smith (mParticle) - Marketing for Entrepreneurs

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Justin Kan (Twitch) - Finding Fulfillment in Entrepreneurship

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Research Insight: Entrepreneurship Education Is About More than Startup Creation

110

Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures) - The New Angel Investing

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Jon Zieger (Responsible Technology Labs) - What is Responsible Innovation?

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Tom Eisenmann (Harvard Business School) - Why Startups Fail

113

Nicole Diaz (Snap Inc.) - How to Build an Ethical Company

114

Jannick Malling (Public.com) - Social Fintech

115

Andre Iguodala (Miami Heat) and Rudy Cline-Thomas (Mastry) - Bridging the Gap Between Sports and Tech

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Maëlle Gavet (Techstars) - Ruthless Empathy

117

Howie Liu (Airtable) - Building Startups, Fast and Slow

118

Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures) - Diverse Businesses Are Better Businesses

119

Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare) - Scaling with Resilience

120

Othman Laraki (Color) - It’s All About Access

121

Research Insight: New Data on Lean Startup

122

Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst) - Build, Don’t Break

123

Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation

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Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix) - Making Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

125

David Rogier (MasterClass) - Finding the Right Motivation

126

Vlad Tenev (Robinhood) - Weathering a Storm

127

Stephanie Lampkin (Blendoor) - Data-Powered Diversity

128

Tony Mugavero (Rad) - Hype vs. Reality in VR

129

Alyssa Ravasio (Hipcamp) - A New Approach to the Great Outdoors

130

2020 Insight: Start with Just One Thing

131

2020 Insight: Connecting the Dots

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2020 Insight: A Lens of Racial Equity

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2020 Insight: Infusing Decisions with Principles

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2020 Insight: Innovating at a Distance

135

Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities

136

Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - The Language of Technology

137

Jessica Norwood (RUNWAY) and Rodney Sampson (OHUB) - Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice

138

Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santi Subotovksy (Emergence Capital) - Winning a Crowded Market

139

Sylvia Acevedo (Path to the Stars) - Perseverance Creates Opportunity

140

George Scangos (Vir Biotechnology) - Making a Difference in Biotech

141

Delane Parnell (PlayVS) - Extreme Focus

142

Shellye Archambeau (Verizon) - Taking Risks and Breaking Barriers

143

Adam Pisoni (Abl) - Innovating for Equity

144

Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) - Disruption and Abundance

145

Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Change Moves at the Speed of Trust

146

Kevin Weil (Novi) - Improving Product Design

147

Amy Chang (Cisco) - Networking with Curiosity

148

Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Empowering Girls with STEM

149

Jeff Seibert (Digits) - Making Remote Work Better

150

Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - Cultivate Creativity and Courage

151

Beverly Parenti & Chris Redlitz (The Last Mile) and Ray Harts (Healthy Hearts Institute) - Growing a Social Venture

152

Joe DeSimone (Carbon) - The Case for Convergence

153

Julie Zhuo (Inspirit) - How to Learn from Users

154

Kevin Systrom (Instagram) - How Instagram Scaled

155

Alexi Robichaux (BetterUp) - Uncompromising Values

156

Ethan Brown (Beyond Meat) - Reimagining Meat

157

Andy Karsner (X) - Designing for Natural Security

158

Joseph Tsai (Alibaba Group) - From Alibaba to the NBA

159

Amy Francetic (Buoyant Ventures) - The Evolution of Clean Tech Investing

160

Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures) - Leadership in a Crisis

161

Annie Kadavy (Redpoint Ventures) - Venture Capital Decisionmaking

162

Ravi Belani (Stanford University) - Building Billion Dollar Businesses

163

Mark Gainey (Strava) - How Strava Found its Niche

164

Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) - Strategies for Student Entrepreneurs

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Omar Tawakol (Voicea) - The Future of Voice

166

Kate Rosenbluth (Cala Health) - A Needs-Based Innovation Framework

167

Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living) - Scaling with Purpose

168

Melinda Thomas (Octave Bioscience) - The Courage to Begin

169

Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind

170

Designing the Life You Really Want - From the ETL Archive

171

Laura Gomez (Atipica) - The Need for Inclusive AI

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Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work - From the ETL Archive

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Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital) - Underestimated

174

Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) - Unicorn Lessons

175

Srin Madipalli (Airbnb) - The Future is Accessible

176

Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly) - Software is Hard Work

177

Barbara Liskov (MIT) - Finding the Great Problems

178

Jennifer Tejada (PagerDuty) - Resilience is Everything

179

Sarah Nahm (Lever) - Redesigning the CEO [Explicit]

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Sickamore (Interscope Records) and Sam Seidel (Stanford d.school) - Inside the Studio

181

Christine Yen (Honeycomb.io) - Creating a Buzz Around B2B Software

182

Matthew Sacks and Lauren Perkins (Luminary Media) - Listening to the Market

183

Chip Conley (Modern Elder Academy) - How to Adapt and Flow

184

Toby Corey (Stanford University) - The Zen of Entrepreneurship

185

Payam Banazadeh (Capella Space) - Prepare to Launch

186

Nicole Hu (One Concern) - Strategies to Fight Disaster

187

Ritu Narayan (Zūm) - Sustaining a Startup's Growth

188

Freada Kapor Klein (Kapor Capital) - Closing Tech's Diversity Gap

189

The Upside of Quitting: A Taste of LEAP!

190

Alberto Savoia (Google) - Build the Right It

191

Navin Chaddha (Mayfield) - Building a People-First Company

192

Alice Zhang (Verge Genomics) - When DNA Meets AI

193

Raj Kapoor (Lyft) and John Viera (Ford Motor Company) - Mobilizing the Future

194

Balaji Srinivasan (Coinbase) - Building the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

195

Elaine Wherry (Meebo) - Climbing the Ladder

196

Ryan Petersen (Flexport) - Modernizing the Shipping Industry

197

Dan Widmaier (Bolt Threads) - Design to Disrupt

198

Brad Bao (Lime) - Innovation Driven By Sustainability

199

Emily Melton (Threshold) - Focus On Forward Momentum

200

Adam Pisoni (Abl Schools) - Let Your Customers Educate You

201

Tina Seelig with Steve Garrity (Hearsay Systems) and Juliet Rothenberg (DeepMind) - Find Your Superpower, Launch Your Career

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Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) - Strike the EQ/IQ Balance in Venture Capital

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Manish Chandra (Poshmark) - Channeling an Adaptive Mindset

204

Maureen Fan (Baobab Studios) - Animating Against the Grain

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Nancy Koehn (Harvard Business School), Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Tenacious Compassion: Leading Through the Storm

206

Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital) - Focus on Users to Solve Problems

207

Lisa Alderson (Genome Medical) - Dare to Stretch Your Boundaries

208

Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia) - A Burnout Manifesto

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209

Joshua Hoffman (Zymergen) - Insights of an Accidental Entrepreneur

210

Chip Heath (Stanford University) - How Organizations Can Win Our Hearts

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Tracy Chou (Project Include) - Debugging the Brogrammer Culture

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Julayne Virgil (Girls Inc.) - The Courage to Take Positive Risks

213

David Baszucki (Roblox) - When the Platform is Your Product

214

Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) - Elements of Effective Leadership

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Josh McFarland (Greylock Partners) - Answering Common Startup Questions

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M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford (Conservation International) - Scaling Sustainability

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Eurie Kim (Forerunner Ventures) - How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You

218

Chris Anderson (3D Robotics) - The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup

219

Sameer Dholakia (SendGrid) - Focus On People

220

Leila Janah (Samasource) - Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work

221

Chris Gerdes (Stanford University) - Ingenuity Derived from Self-Driving Cars

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Patrick Brown (Impossible Foods) - Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change

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Anne Wojcicki (23andMe) - Driving Discovery and Disruption

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Amy Chang (Accompany) - Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing

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Tristan Harris (Time Well Spent) - Making Technology Less Manipulative

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Catherine Berman (CNote) - Embrace Your Otherness

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Rich Barton (Zillow Group) - Empower People with Information

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Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - How to Outwit Workplace Jerks

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Sandy Jen (Honor) - The Rewards of Taking Risks

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Bob Sutton (Stanford University), Patty McCord (Patty McCord Consulting) - ETL Takeover: A Taste of FRICTION

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Toni Townes-Whitley (Microsoft) - The Ethics of Innovation

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David Eagleman (Stanford School of Medicine) - A Brainy Approach to Innovation

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Carlos Watson (Ozy Media) - Taking a Lead From Tech

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Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson (Zoox) - Self-Driving Cars for Everyone

235

Kevin Weil (Instagram) - Unfiltered Insights From Instagram

236

Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker), Judah Pollack (Riverene Leadership) - Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking

237

Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle

238

Tracy Young (PlanGrid), Doug Leone (Sequoia Capital) - Solve the Problem You Have

239

Shirzad Chamine (Positive Intelligence, Inc.) - The Enlightened Entrepreneur

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Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze) - Driving Growth + Authenticity

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Dave Evans (Stanford Life Design Lab) - Designing the Life You Really Want

242

Susan Feldman (One Kings Lane) - Bootstrapping with Flair

243

Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania) - Six Ways to be an ‘Original’

244

Meg Whitman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - Lessons in Situational Leadership

245

Brendan Boyle (IDEO) - Playing With Purpose

246

Bob Tinker (MobileIron) - Evolving With Your Company

247

Margaret Anne Neale (Stanford Graduate School of Business) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Margaret Anne Neale

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Jay Kaplan (Synack) - Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity

249

Julie Zhuo (Facebook) - How a Facebook Designer Thinks

250

Michael Ackermann (Allergan) - A Tearful Tale of Biodesign

251

Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Entrepreneurship Strengthens a Nation

252

Etosha Cave (Opus 12), Jonah Greenberger (Bright, Inc.), Cody Karutz (STRIVR Labs, Inc.), Elaine Cheung (GRAIL, Inc.) - Returning With Real-World Wisdom

253

Jane Chen (Embrace Innovations) - Embrace the Entrepreneurial Journey

254

Bonny Simi (JetBlue Technology Ventures) - An Entrepreneurial Mindset — Applied to You

255

Joseph DeSimone (Carbon3D, Inc.) - Convergence Drives New Ideas

256

Michael Terrell (Terrell Leadership Group) - Special: Stanford Innovation Lab - Michael Terrell

257

Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education

258

William Perry (Stanford University) - Dedication to Innovation and Nation

259

Bobby Lee (BTCC) - Why Bitcoin Makes Sense

260

Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson (Play Bigger Advisors) - How to Be a Category King

261

DJ Kleinbaum (Emerald Therapeutics) - Contrarian Truths Empowering Innovation

262

Astro Teller (X) - Celebrating Failure Fuels Moonshots

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Bernard Roth (Stanford University) - Reframing Problems and Getting Honest

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Derek Belch (STRIVR Labs) - Immersed in Virtual Reality

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Minnie Ingersoll (Shift) - A Drive to Disrupt

266

Federica Marchionni (Lands' End) - Embracing the Non-Obvious

267

James Freeman (Blue Bottle Coffee) - Subtle Notes of Coffee and Philosophy

268

Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) - Why Company Culture is Crucial

269

John Hennessy (Stanford University) - Great Leadership Can Be Learned

270

Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Dare to Do Legendary Things

271

Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital), Lisa Sugar (Popsugar) - Follow Your Instincts and Find Your Path

272

Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Solving Social Ills Through Innovation

273

Brit Morin (Brit + Co) - Inspiring Creativity with Great Content

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Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Venture Fund) - Creating Your Own Canvas

275

Scott Cook (Intuit) - Accounting for Intuit's Success

276

Lyndon Rive (Solar City) - The Science and Incentives Behind Solar

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James Beshara (Tilt) - Building Insights with Bricks and Mortar

278

Jeff Seibert (Twitter) - Acquisitions: Lessons from All Sides

279

Astro Teller (X), Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Christina Smolke (Stanford University School of Medicine) - Forecasting the Future of Technology

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Elon Musk (SpaceX) - Elon Musk's Vision for the Future

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Stewart Butterfield (Slack) - Serendipity in Design and Entrepreneurship

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Susan Koger (ModCloth) - Find Your Venture's Emotional Core

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William Marshall (Planet Labs) - Entrepreneurship Takes Flight

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Chinedu Echeruo (Constant Capital Partners) - Creativity Unleashes Value for the World

285

Mike Rothenberg (Rothenberg Ventures) - Blue is Where You Should Be

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Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Simple Rules for a Complex World

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Kyle Forster (Big Switch Networks) - Non-Linear Path to Leadership

288

Ron Gutman (HealthTap) - Impact Will Keep You Motivated

289

Sean George (Invitae) - Experience is Your Reward

290

Laurene Powell Jobs (Emerson Collective) - Injecting Innovation into Intractable Systems

291

Joshua Reeves (Gusto) - The Startup Journey: A Marathon, Not a Sprint

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John Collison (Stripe) - Putting Startup Success in Perspective

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Kathryn Gould (Foundation Capital) - Figure Out What's Important

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Alon Cohen (Houzz) - Making Complicated Things Simple

295

Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang Architects) - Growing a Creative Company

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Shah Selbe (National Geographic Society) - Find Your Niche, Help the World

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Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America) - Make Government Work Better for All

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Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) - Nailing the Hard Things

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Tina Wells (Buzz Marketing Group) - Consumers and Brands in the Digital Age

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Jennifer Carolan (New Schools Seed Fund) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education

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Lewis Cirne (New Relic) - Life is Too Short for Bad Software

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Matt Rogers (Nest) - Tackle Projects Others Don't Want

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Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - From Inspiration to Implementation

304

Liz Wiseman (Author) - The Power of Not Knowing

305

Kevin Hartz and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite) - Optimal Traits and Sustainable Advantages

306

Heidi Roizen (Threshold) - Adventures in Entrepreneurship

307

Leah Busque (TaskRabbit) - Do Something You Love

308

Geoff Donaker (Yelp) - The Road to IPO

309

Linda Rottenberg (Endeavor) - Crazy is a Compliment

310

Ed Catmull (Disney/Pixar Animation) - Creativity, Inc.

311

Morris Chang (Taiwan Semiconductor) - An Emphasis on Excellence

312

Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined

313

Tristan Walker (Walker and Company) - Be an Authentic Entrepreneur

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Cameron Teitelman (StartX), Joseph Huang (WifiSLAM), Milt McColl (Gauss Surgical), Smita Saxena (SpotOn) - Acceleration Through Community

315

Hemant Shah (RMS) - A True Model for Embracing Change

316

Cameron Strang (Warner Bros. Records), Nate Ruess (fun.) - The Music Industry Unplugged

317

Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Scaling Up Excellence

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Gurjeet Singh and Gunnar Carlsson (Ayasdi) - Shaping the Future of Data

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William Hsu (MuckerLab) - Moving from Hubris to Confidence

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Halle Tecco (Rock Health) - Accelerating Real Change in Healthcare

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Sharon Vosmek (Astia) - The Path to More Inclusive Innovation

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Mike Olson (Cloudera) - Opportunities Abound in the Big Data Space

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Scott Harrison (charity: water) - Thirsting for a Life of Service

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Bill Drayton (Ashoka) - A World of Changemakers

325

Steve Teig (Tabula) - Revel in the Adventure of New Ideas

326

Cyriac Roeding (Shopkick) - You Have to Break the Egg

327

Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) - Realizing Innovation at Enterprise Scale

328

Matthew Rabinowitz (Natera) - There is Always a Way Forward

329

Ferdinando Buscema (Magic Experience Designer) - Magician Leadership

330

Jocelyn Goldfein (Facebook) - Deep Inside Facebook

331

Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti (KickLabs; The Last Mile), Heracio Harts (The Last Mile) - From Lockup to Startup

332

Justin Rosenstein (Asana) - Leading Big Visions From the Heart

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Kate Mitchell (Scale Venture Partners) - Own Your Own Success

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Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta (Pulse) - What You Learn by Doing

335

Monica Lam (Stanford University) - Mobile Can Disrupt Social

336

Nassim Taleb (Author) - How Things Gain from Disorder

337

Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media) - Create More Value Than You Capture

338

Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu (Skybox Imaging) - Launching into Uncharted Space

339

Stephen Cohen (Palantir) - The Path to Palantir

340

Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures) - An Enterprising Approach to Investment

341

Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) - Calling All Entrepreneurial Heroes

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John Lilly (Greylock Partners) - White Space is Everywhere

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Steven McCormick (Moore Foundation) - Drive Change Through Entrepreneurship

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Hank Wuh (Skai Ventures) - Disruptive Innovation Can Happen Anywhere

345

Sue Siegel (GE) - A Healthy Respect for Innovation

346

Melinda Gates (Gates Foundation) - Pursue Passions with a Vengeance

347

Jess Lee (Polyvore) - Path and Purpose of a First-TIme CEO

348

Noam Wasserman (Harvard Business School) - The Founder's Dilemmas

349

Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Steve Garrity (Hearsay Social), Kit Rodgers (Cryptography Research), Divya Nag (Stem Cell Theranostics) - Impact: Stanford Entrepreneurship and Innovation

350

Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures) - Timing Matters

351

Olivia Fox Cabane (Author and Speaker) - Build Your Personal Charisma

352

Drew Houston (Dropbox) - Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur

353

Adam Lashinsky (Author) - Secrets at Apple's Core

354

Daniel Ek (Spotify) - A Playlist for Entrepreneurs

355

Brian Murray (HarperCollins) - A Story of Change and Opportunity

356

Rebeca Hwang (YouNoodle), Elizabeth Samara-Rubio (StorWatts) - Small Acts and Big Impacts

357

Gale Anne Hurd (Film and Television Producer) - Producing a Career from the Ground Up

358

Jeff Church (Nika Water) - The Wave of Social Entrepreneurship

359

Sandra Kurtzig (Kenandy, ASK Group), Andy Kurtzig (JustAnswer) - Two Generations of Entrepreneurship

360

Kristina Johnson (Enduring Energy) - Energies that Power a Career

361

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Live Life in Permanent Beta

362

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (JOYUS) - Find Your Vector of Impact

363

Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Embrace Uncertainty

364

Ted Zoller (Kauffman Foundation) - Building an Entrepreneurial Career

365

Alexander Osterwalder (Author) - Tools for Business Model Generation

366

Deborah Hopkins (Citi) - Talking About a Revolution

367

Jessica Mah (inDinero) - A Startup is a Learning Experience

368

Dana Mead (KPCB) - Understanding Venture Capital

369

Adam Lowry (Method) - Method to Success

370

Marten Mickos (Eucalyptus Systems, MySQL AB) - Believe In Something Bigger Than Yourself

371

Scott Summit (Bespoke Innovations) - Products With a Purpose

372

Brad Feld (Foundry Group, TechStars) - Great Entrepreneurs Go Out and Do

373

Phil Libin (Evernote) - No Exit Strategy for Your Life's Work

374

David Friedberg (The Climate Corporation) - Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning

375

Aneesh Chopra (US Office of Science and Technology) - Innovate for America

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Wences Casares (Bling Nation & Lemon Bank) - The Value of True Partnerships

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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram) - From Stanford to Startup

378

Geoffrey Moore (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - Reach Your Escape Velocity

379

Richard Scheller (Genentech) - Developing Products that Save Lives

380

Ori Brafman (Author) - How to Build Instant Connections

381

Barry Silbert (SecondMarket, Inc.) - A New Vision for Capital Markets

382

Jennifer Morris (Conservation International) - Effective Models for Sustainable Growth

383

Guy Kawasaki (Garage Technology Ventures) - Creating Enchantment

384

Bill Gross (Idealab & eSolar) - A Devotion to New Ideas

385

Mark Forchette (OptiMedica) - Live for the Future and Survive Success

386

Jack Dorsey (Square) - The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration

387

Susan Desmond-Hellmann (UCSF) - Relentless Pursuit of Innovation

388

Brent Constantz (Calera) - Following Your Startup Vision

389

Aaron Levie (Box.net) - Delivering Innovation for the Enterprise

390

Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) - Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education

391

Jennifer Aaker (Stanford University, GSB) - How Ideas Take Flight

392

Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - What Great Leaders Do

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Diego Piacentini (Amazon) - Customer Focus Builds Global Growth

394

Ann Miura-Ko (FLOODGATE) - Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs

395

Thomas Prescott (Align Technology) - Leadership and Disruptive Technologies

396

Mark Suster (Serial Entrepreneur) - Honest Advice on Starting a Company

397

Dan Rosensweig (Chegg), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital) - Solving Problems Makes a Great Business

398

Amit Chatterjee (Hara, Inc.) - Entrepreneurial Lessons: Find Value and Make Impact

399

Juan Andrés Fontaine (Chilean Government) - Chile: Launching a Global Entrepreneurship Hub

400

Alec Ross (Advisor to US Secretary of State) - The Diplomacy of Technology

401

Josh Makower (ExploraMed) - The Perfect Storm in MedTech

402

Marc Andreessen (Serial Entrepreneur) - A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond

403

Lisa Lambert (Intel Capital) - Investing for Market Strategy and Capital

404

Tom Conrad (Pandora) - A Pandora's Box of Start-up Expertise

405

Carlos Perea (Miox) - The Ebb and Flow of Clean Tech and Entrepreneurs

406

John Seely Brown (Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation) - Collaborative Innovation and a Pull Economy

407

Polly Sumner (salesforce.com), Liz Tinkham (Accenture) - Success and Failure Drive Innovation

408

Steve Case (AOL, Revolution) - People, Passion, Perseverance: You've Got Entrepreneurship

409

Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle (SlideShare) - Sharing a Measure of Success

410

Steve Garrity and Clara Shih (Hearsay Social), Jeff Seibert (Twitter), Joshua Reeves (Gusto), Tristan Harris (Apture) - Panel of Young Entrepreneurs

411

William Hagstrom (Crescendo Bioscience) - Entrepreneurial Journeys in Healthcare

412

Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (Stanford University) - Risky Business: Analysis from an Engineering Perspective

413

David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) - Unlearn Your MBA

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John Adler (Accuray), Trip Adler (Scribd) - Evolution of a CEO

415

Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Fall 2009 Quarter Roundup: What Did We Learn?

416

Chamillionaire (Music Artist & Performer), Quincy Jones III (QD3 Entertainment) - Successful Independent Promotion: From Artist to Entrepreneur

417

Mark Pincus (Zynga) - A Serious Take on Internet Game Play

418

Craig Barrett (Intel Corporation (Formerly)) - A Historical Perspective on Semiconductors and Moore's Law

419

Greg Papadopoulos (Sun Microsystems) - Responsible Engineering in the Modern Age

420

Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) - Innovation in a Disruptive Environment

421

Eric Ries (Author) - Evangelizing for the Lean Startup

422

Robin Li (Baidu) - Lessons From China: The Evolution of The Globe's Largest Search Engine

423

Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - The Art of Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

424

Steve Westly (The Westly Group) - Clean Tech Challenges and Solutions

425

Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) - Inside the Mind of a Reluctant Entrepreneur

426

Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) - The Future of Microsoft, The Future of Technology

427

Jennifer Scott Fonstad (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Steve Perricone (BioFuelBox) - Under the Lid of BioFuelBox

428

Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) - Spotlight on Scalability

429

Mari Baker (PlayFirst) - Building an Organization, Building a Team

430

Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) - Vision Matters

431

Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn) - What is the Next Big Thing?

432

John Hennessy (Stanford University) - Innovation as the Crux of Entrepreneurship

433

Tom Siebel (First Virtual Group) - Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace

434

Spencer E. Ante (BusinessWeek) - A History of Venture Capital

435

Teresa Briggs (Deloitte Silicon Valley) - Making a Big Company Feel Small

436

Soujanya Bhumkar, Josh Schwarzapel and Austin Shoemaker (Cooliris) - The Growth and Bloom of Cooliris

437

Hugh Martin (Pacific Biosciences) - 13 Mistakes and 13 Brilliant Strokes

438

Negotiating Your Career

439

Tom Kelley (IDEO) - Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life

440

Anna Patterson (Cuil) - A Cuil Tune-up for Search Engines

441

Judy Estrin (JLABS, LLC) - Is Innovation Withering on the Vine?

442

Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) - The Black Swans of Energy Invention

443

William McDonough (William McDonough + Partners) - Balancing Economy, Equity, and Ecology Through Design

444

Erik Straser (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - The Next Wave of Industry: Global Clean Tech

445

Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Retooling Early Stage Development

446

Beth Seidenberg (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) - A VC Perspective on the Life Sciences

447

John Melo (Amyris Biotechnologies) - Under the Microscope: Socially Responsible Biotech

448

Larry Brilliant (Google.org) - The Next Wave of Corporate Philanthropy

449

Sue Decker (Yahoo! Inc.) - The Evolution of Yahoo!

450

Anand Chandrasekaran (Aeroprise) - Unreeling the Documentary Film

451

Peter Diamandis (X PRIZE Foundation) - Rewarding Sky-High Innovation

452

David Rothkopf (Author) - Concentrated Power in a Global Economy

453

Jeff Housenbold (Shutterfly) - Entrepreneurship that Clicks

454

Ken Wilcox (Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group) - Banking on Corporate Culture and Strategy

455

Debra Dunn (Skoll Foundation), Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy (B Corporation) - Representing the Socially Responsible Enterprise

456

Mir Imran (InCube Labs) - Healthy Entrepreneurship in Medical Devices

457

Brett Crosby (Google Analytics) - The Path to an Acquisition

458

Christine Benninger (Humane Society of Silicon Valley) - Entrepreneurial Practices for High-Impact Non-Profits

459

Jesse Fink (MissionPoint Capital Partners), Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Intersection of the Environment and Financial Markets

460

Ron Conway (Angel Investors LP), Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Angel Investing Revealed

461

Mitch Kapor (Foxmarks) - How to Build a Successful Company

462

Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent) - Delivering a Digital Torrent

463

Armen Berjikly (Experience Project) - Connecting Common Experiences

464

Larry Bawden (Jadoo Power) - The Growth of Solar Ventures

465

Stan Christensen (Stanford Technology Ventures Program; Arbor Advisors) - The Art of Negotiation

466

Dominic Orr (Aruba Networks) - Startups: The Need for Speed

467

Martin Eberhard (Tesla Motors) - Lessons from the Electric Roadster

468

Donna Novitsky (STVP) - From Venture Capitalist to Entrepreneur

469

Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - The No Jerk Rule

470

Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Corporation) - Community-Based Organizations

471

Stan Christensen Interviews Secretary George P. Shultz on Negotiation

472

Negotiations On and Off the Field

473

Andrew Frame (Ooma), Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Adventures of a Startup CEO: No Guts No Glory

474

Jackie Speier (Author and Former State Senator), Deborah Stephens (Center for Innovative Leadership) - Overcoming Adversity and Taking Risks

475

Carly Fiorina (Former CEO, HP) - Leadership and Choice

476

Shai Agassi (SAP AG) - The Physics of Startups

477

Mark Jung (IGN) - Phases of a Startup

478

William Perry (Stanford University) - It's Your Ship: Lessons in Leadership

479

Tom Byers (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - The Role of Entrepreneurship in Solving World Problems

480

G. Steven Burrill (Burrill & Company) - An Entrepreneurial Perspective on the Life Sciences Industry

481

Gregory Waldorf (eHarmony) - 5 Must-Haves of an Entrepreneurial Career

482

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Choosing the Entrepreneurial Path

483

Ron Bloom (PodShow) - The Dynamic Relationship Between an Entrepreneur and VC

484

Tien Tzuo (Salesforce.com) - Changing the Game of Enterprise Software

485

Janice Roberts (Mayfield Fund) - The New Adventures of Old VC's

486

Scott Kriens (Juniper Networks) - Words of Wisdom from an Experienced CEO

487

Greg Ballard (Glu Mobile) - Confessions of a Serial Silicon Valley CEO

488

Nick Earl (Electronic Arts) - The New Frontier in Gaming

489

Joe McCracken (Genentech) - A Culture of Making a Difference

490

Chris Larsen (Prosper Marketplace) - "Founding Prosper, a People-to-People Lending Marketplace"

491

Rick Wallace (KLA-Tencor) - "Vision, Values & Strategy"

492

Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Research Lens on Understanding Entrepreneurial Firms

493

Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Stimulating Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace

494

Gil Penchina (Wikia) - The Contrasts of a Big Company and a Small Start-Up

495

Ryan Phelan (DNA Direct) - Groundbreaking Healthcare Initiatives and the Entrepreneurial Minds Behind Them

496

Marissa Mayer (Google) - Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google

497

Pam Marrone (AgraQuest) - The Ins and Outs of a successful Biotechnology Company

498

Secret to Successful Negotiations

499

Stephanie Keller-Bottom (Nokia Innovent) - The Fairy Tale of Innovent and How it Came to be

500

Katie Rodan (Proactiv Solution) - The Story of Proactiv Solution

501

Tina Seelig (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

502

John Roos (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati) - Life Inside a Law Firm

503

Carol Bartz (Autodesk) - Balancing Work and Life

504

Michael Goldberg (Mohr Davidow Ventures) - Lessons Learned in the Life Sciences Industry

505

Chong-Moon Lee (Ambex Venture Group) - Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy Through the Eyes of an Immigrant

506

Kim Popovits (Genomic Health) - Strategies in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

507

Janice Fraser (Adaptive Path) - Entrepreneurial Leadership Qualities

508

Bobby Beaver and Jeff Beaver (Zazzle) - Two Brothers Building a Company From Scratch

509

Tom Byers (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) - Ten Enduring Success Factors for High Technology Entrepreneurship

510

Frank Ricks (LRK Architecture) - Using Creative Leadership

511

Kim Polese (SpikeSource) - Twenty Years of Experience in Developing Software in Silicon Valley

512

Lonnie Smith (Intuitive Surgical) - From Start-up to Market Dominance in the Field of Surgical Robotics

513

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) - From Harvard to the Facebook

514

Joe Liemandt (Trilogy) - The Passion and Perseverance Behind a Start-up

515

Evan Williams (Odeo) - The Technology of Podcasting

516

Geoff Davis (Unitus) - The Microfinance of Entrepreneurship

517

Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) - Entrepreneurship Viewed as a Tool and When to Use it in Industry & Science