Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) - Be the Human Spark
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur, author, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He is the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and the...
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20 of 522 episodesAdam Nash (Daffy) - Making Great Products
Adam Nash is the co-founder and CEO of Daffy, a modern donor-advised fund (DAF) built to help people be more generous, more often. Under his...
Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity
Ryan Nece is co-founder and managing partner of Next Legacy Partners, a multi-strategy venture platform investing in established venture fir...
Jake Miller (Fellow) - Designing Products Around Customer Experience
Jake Miller founded Fellow coming out of Stanford’s d.school Launchpad course, starting with the Duo Coffee Steeper. Fellow products are now...
Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space
Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic woman astronaut to go into space, serving on four space shuttle missions. She served from 2013 to 2018 as...
Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures) - A People-Centered Journey
Elizabeth Weil is the founder and general partner at Scribble Ventures, the seed fund where builders from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, Instagram,...
Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup
Tracy Chou is a product-minded engineering leader and exited founder with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling consumer and...
Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight
Harry Tannenbaum is the co-founder and president of Mill, a technology company combining hardware and AI to reduce waste and recover value f...
Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography
Stanford alumni Kit Rodgers, Paul Kocher, and Ben Jun co-founded Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI), where they built and deployed some of th...
Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI
Brendan Foody co-founded Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley's top AI labs train their models to do professional-level re...
Sergey Brin (Google & Alphabet) - Google Origins and AI Futures
Recorded live at the capstone celebration of the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial, this ETL episode features Sergey Brin, the Ameri...
Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook
Eric Volmar is teaching lead at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford. His work focuses on connecting defense...
Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics
Steve Cousins is the executive director of the Stanford Robotics Center and founder of Relay Robotics (formerly Savioke), which builds auton...
Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work
Jane Chen is the co-founder of Embrace Global, which created a low-cost infant warmer that has helped more than one million babies in low-re...
Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact
Sanjit Biswas is the co-founder and CEO of Samsara, a global leader in allowing physical operations organizations to harness data, AI, and t...
Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream
Drew Endy is an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and a pioneer of synthetic biology. A co-founder of the BioBric...
Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy
Grant Lee is the CEO and Co-founder of Gamma, an AI-powered presentation and website design tool that has scaled to 50 million customers and...
Tina Seelig (Stanford University) - Catching the Winds of Luck
Tina Seelig is an educator, entrepreneur, and bestselling author who has spent decades teaching creativity, innovation, and leadership at St...
Samir Vasavada (Vise) - From Teenage Founder to Tech CEO
Samir Vasavada, co-founder and CEO of Vise, shares his inspiring journey from launching an AI-powered asset management startup as a teenager...
Osi Imeokparia (Kode with Klossy) - Training Tech’s Next Gen [Entire Talk]
Founded by supermodel Karlie Kloss, Kode With Klossy teaches young women and gender expansive youth how to code. The organization supports a...