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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) — 520 episodes

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Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity

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Jake Miller (Fellow) - Designing Products Around Customer Experience

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Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space

4

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

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

8

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

9

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

10

Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook

11

Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics

12

Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work

13

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

14

Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream

15

Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

Garrett Lord (Handshake) - The Network Effect

20

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

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Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

Returning With Real-World Wisdom [ETL Looks Back]

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

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Announcing ETL Looks Back

40

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

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

42

David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology

43

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

44

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

45

Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI

46

Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights

47

Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values

48

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

49

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

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Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path

51

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

52

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

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

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

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

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

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Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights

58

Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company

59

Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs

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Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies

61

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

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Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders

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

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

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Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (Grammarly) - Responsible AI Innovation

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Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe) - Scaling Operations and People

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Julia Collins (Planet FWD) - Opportunities in Climate Tech

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

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Frederic Kerrest (Okta) - The Truth about Entrepreneurship

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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) - Inside OpenAI

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Deb Liu (Ancestry) - The Power of Scrappiness

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

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

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

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

76

Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy) - Lessons from a Stanford Success

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

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Annie Hockey (Column) - Reimagining Fintech

79

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

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Dante Disparte (Circle) - Ethical Crypto Innovation

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

82

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

83

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

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

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Tim Brown (Allbirds) - Innovating for a Sustainable World

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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

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John Felts (Cruz Foam) - Engineering Green Materials

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Kristen Fortney (BioAge) - Derisking Biotech

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

92

Jorge Rios (Bridgefy) - Seizing Global Opportunities

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

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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

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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

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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

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James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures) - World Positive Investing

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

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

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Jeff Epstein (Bessemer Venture Partners) - What Investors Want

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

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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

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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

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

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Jannick Malling (Public.com) - Social Fintech

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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

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

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

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Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare) - Scaling with Resilience

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

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Research Insight: New Data on Lean Startup

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

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Aicha Evans (Zoox) - Driving Innovation

127

Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix) - Making Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

128

David Rogier (MasterClass) - Finding the Right Motivation

129

Vlad Tenev (Robinhood) - Weathering a Storm

130

Stephanie Lampkin (Blendoor) - Data-Powered Diversity

131

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

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

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2020 Insight: Start with Just One Thing

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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

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Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

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

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

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Delane Parnell (PlayVS) - Extreme Focus

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Shellye Archambeau (Verizon) - Taking Risks and Breaking Barriers

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Adam Pisoni (Abl) - Innovating for Equity

147

Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) - Disruption and Abundance

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

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Kevin Weil (Novi) - Improving Product Design

150

Amy Chang (Cisco) - Networking with Curiosity

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Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Empowering Girls with STEM

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Jeff Seibert (Digits) - Making Remote Work Better

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

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

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Joe DeSimone (Carbon) - The Case for Convergence

156

Julie Zhuo (Inspirit) - How to Learn from Users

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Kevin Systrom (Instagram) - How Instagram Scaled

158

Alexi Robichaux (BetterUp) - Uncompromising Values

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Ethan Brown (Beyond Meat) - Reimagining Meat

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Andy Karsner (X) - Designing for Natural Security

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

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

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Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures) - Leadership in a Crisis

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Annie Kadavy (Redpoint Ventures) - Venture Capital Decisionmaking

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Ravi Belani (Stanford University) - Building Billion Dollar Businesses

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Mark Gainey (Strava) - How Strava Found its Niche

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Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) - Strategies for Student Entrepreneurs

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Omar Tawakol (Voicea) - The Future of Voice

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

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Kulveer Taggar (Zeus Living) - Scaling with Purpose

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Melinda Thomas (Octave Bioscience) - The Courage to Begin

172

Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind

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Designing the Life You Really Want - From the ETL Archive

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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

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Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) - Unicorn Lessons

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Srin Madipalli (Airbnb) - The Future is Accessible

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Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly) - Software is Hard Work

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Barbara Liskov (MIT) - Finding the Great Problems

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Jennifer Tejada (PagerDuty) - Resilience is Everything

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

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

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

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

186

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

187

Toby Corey (Stanford University) - The Zen of Entrepreneurship

188

Payam Banazadeh (Capella Space) - Prepare to Launch

189

Nicole Hu (One Concern) - Strategies to Fight Disaster

190

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

191

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

192

The Upside of Quitting: A Taste of LEAP!

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Alberto Savoia (Google) - Build the Right It

194

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

195

Alice Zhang (Verge Genomics) - When DNA Meets AI

196

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

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Balaji Srinivasan (Coinbase) - Building the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

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Elaine Wherry (Meebo) - Climbing the Ladder

199

Ryan Petersen (Flexport) - Modernizing the Shipping Industry

200

Dan Widmaier (Bolt Threads) - Design to Disrupt

201

Brad Bao (Lime) - Innovation Driven By Sustainability

202

Emily Melton (Threshold) - Focus On Forward Momentum

203

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

204

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

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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

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

210

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

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Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia) - A Burnout Manifesto

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Joshua Hoffman (Zymergen) - Insights of an Accidental Entrepreneur

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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

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

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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

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

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Sameer Dholakia (SendGrid) - Focus On People

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

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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

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Kevin Weil (Instagram) - Unfiltered Insights From Instagram

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

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Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle

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

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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

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Susan Feldman (One Kings Lane) - Bootstrapping with Flair

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

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

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Brendan Boyle (IDEO) - Playing With Purpose

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Bob Tinker (MobileIron) - Evolving With Your Company

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

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Jay Kaplan (Synack) - Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity

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Julie Zhuo (Facebook) - How a Facebook Designer Thinks

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Michael Ackermann (Allergan) - A Tearful Tale of Biodesign

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Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Entrepreneurship Strengthens a Nation

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

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Jane Chen (Embrace Innovations) - Embrace the Entrepreneurial Journey

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

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

259

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

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Richard Miller (Olin College) - More Innovation Through Education

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

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Bobby Lee (BTCC) - Why Bitcoin Makes Sense

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

264

DJ Kleinbaum (Emerald Therapeutics) - Contrarian Truths Empowering Innovation

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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

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

270

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

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Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) - Why Company Culture is Crucial

272

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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Ron Gutman (HealthTap) - Impact Will Keep You Motivated

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Sean George (Invitae) - Experience is Your Reward

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

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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

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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

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Liz Wiseman (Author) - The Power of Not Knowing

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

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Heidi Roizen (Threshold) - Adventures in Entrepreneurship

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Leah Busque (TaskRabbit) - Do Something You Love

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Geoff Donaker (Yelp) - The Road to IPO

312

Linda Rottenberg (Endeavor) - Crazy is a Compliment

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

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Morris Chang (Taiwan Semiconductor) - An Emphasis on Excellence

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Sal Khan (Khan Academy) - Education Reimagined

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) - Realizing Innovation at Enterprise Scale

331

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

332

Ferdinando Buscema (Magic Experience Designer) - Magician Leadership

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Jocelyn Goldfein (Facebook) - Deep Inside Facebook

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

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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

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Monica Lam (Stanford University) - Mobile Can Disrupt Social

339

Nassim Taleb (Author) - How Things Gain from Disorder

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

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

342

Stephen Cohen (Palantir) - The Path to Palantir

343

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

344

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

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Sue Siegel (GE) - A Healthy Respect for Innovation

349

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

350

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

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

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

353

Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures) - Timing Matters

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

355

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

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

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Daniel Ek (Spotify) - A Playlist for Entrepreneurs

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

359

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

360

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

361

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

362

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

363

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

364

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Live Life in Permanent Beta

365

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

366

Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Embrace Uncertainty

367

Ted Zoller (Kauffman Foundation) - Building an Entrepreneurial Career

368

Alexander Osterwalder (Author) - Tools for Business Model Generation

369

Deborah Hopkins (Citi) - Talking About a Revolution

370

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

371

Dana Mead (KPCB) - Understanding Venture Capital

372

Adam Lowry (Method) - Method to Success

373

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

374

Scott Summit (Bespoke Innovations) - Products With a Purpose

375

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

376

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

377

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

378

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

381

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

382

Richard Scheller (Genentech) - Developing Products that Save Lives

383

Ori Brafman (Author) - How to Build Instant Connections

384

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

385

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

386

Guy Kawasaki (Garage Technology Ventures) - Creating Enchantment

387

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

388

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

389

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

390

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

391

Brent Constantz (Calera) - Following Your Startup Vision

392

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

393

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

394

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

395

Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - What Great Leaders Do

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Diego Piacentini (Amazon) - Customer Focus Builds Global Growth

397

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

398

Thomas Prescott (Align Technology) - Leadership and Disruptive Technologies

399

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

400

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

401

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

402

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

403

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

404

Josh Makower (ExploraMed) - The Perfect Storm in MedTech

405

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

406

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

407

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

408

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

409

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

410

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

411

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

412

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

413

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

414

William Hagstrom (Crescendo Bioscience) - Entrepreneurial Journeys in Healthcare

415

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

416

David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) - Unlearn Your MBA

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

418

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

419

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

420

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

421

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

422

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

423

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

424

Eric Ries (Author) - Evangelizing for the Lean Startup

425

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

426

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

427

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

428

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

429

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

430

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

431

Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) - Spotlight on Scalability

432

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

433

Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) - Vision Matters

434

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

435

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

436

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

437

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

438

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

439

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

440

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

441

Negotiating Your Career

442

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

443

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

444

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

445

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

446

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

447

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

448

Steve Blank (Stanford Engineering) - Retooling Early Stage Development

449

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

450

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

451

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

452

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

453

Anand Chandrasekaran (Aeroprise) - Unreeling the Documentary Film

454

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

455

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

456

Jeff Housenbold (Shutterfly) - Entrepreneurship that Clicks

457

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

458

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

459

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

460

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

461

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

462

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

463

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

464

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

465

Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent) - Delivering a Digital Torrent

466

Armen Berjikly (Experience Project) - Connecting Common Experiences

467

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

468

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

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

470

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

471

Donna Novitsky (STVP) - From Venture Capitalist to Entrepreneur

472

Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - The No Jerk Rule

473

Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Corporation) - Community-Based Organizations

474

Stan Christensen Interviews Secretary George P. Shultz on Negotiation

475

Negotiations On and Off the Field

476

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

477

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

478

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

479

Shai Agassi (SAP AG) - The Physics of Startups

480

Mark Jung (IGN) - Phases of a Startup

481

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

482

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

483

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

484

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

485

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Choosing the Entrepreneurial Path

486

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

487

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

488

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

489

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

490

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

491

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

492

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

493

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

494

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

495

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

496

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

497

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

498

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

499

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

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

501

Secret to Successful Negotiations

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

503

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

504

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

505

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

506

Carol Bartz (Autodesk) - Balancing Work and Life

507

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

508

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

509

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

510

Janice Fraser (Adaptive Path) - Entrepreneurial Leadership Qualities

511

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

512

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

513

Frank Ricks (LRK Architecture) - Using Creative Leadership

514

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

515

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

516

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) - From Harvard to the Facebook

517

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

518

Evan Williams (Odeo) - The Technology of Podcasting

519

Geoff Davis (Unitus) - The Microfinance of Entrepreneurship

520

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