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Steve Blank Podcast — 319 episodes · page 1 of 4
Subterranean Warfare – An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner
Lean LaunchPad – The Next Generation
The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t
AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP
The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same
Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
Incorruptible
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
Nowhere is Safe
Solving Yesterday’s Problems Will Kill You
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End
You Only Think They Work For You
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War
The Department of War Directory
The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed
It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy
How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory – Now with 500 more names
No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business
Lean Launchpad at Stanford – 2025
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Teaching National Security Policy with AI
How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower
The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy: Part 6a The Secret History of Silicon Valley
How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower
An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
How to get meetings with people too busy to see you
Lying on your resume
Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes
Nuke’em ‘Till They Glow – Quitting My First Job
Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA
You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem
Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die
Balloon Wars: Part 16 of the Secret History of Silicon Valley
Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups
Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making
Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2
Founders and dysfunctional families
Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk
Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same
Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1
Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location
Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important Company You Never Heard Of
Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions
Preparing for Chaos – the Life of a Startup
Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus
Change We Can Believe In – Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open Source the Chevy Volt
The “Good” Student
Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential?
The Curse of a New Building
SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot
SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards
Supermac War Story 8: Cats and Dogs – Admitting a Mistake
SuperMac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat – Product Line Extensions
SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution — the Potrero Benchmarks
How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense
Quantum Computing – An Update
How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It
What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This.
How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices
Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups
Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It
Lean LaunchPad @Stanford 2024 – 8 Teams In, 8 Companies Out
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Gordon Bell R.I.P.
Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid
The Secret History of Polaroid CEO Edwin Land
Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals
Is a $100 Million Enough?
Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up
The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates
The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done
Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1
Profound Beliefs
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush
Lean Meets Wicked Problems
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Be Where Your Business Is
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit
The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education & Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption
The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry