Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Ron Bloom, PodShow - Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - The Dynamic Relationship Between an Entrepreneur and VC

Audio Podcast: The Dynamic Relationship Between an Entrepreneur and VC

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Ray Lane, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Ron Bloom, CEO of PodShow, describe their relationship in building an online media entertainment company focused on meeting the fast-changing demands of today's web users.

Ron Bloom Biography

A veteran media industry executive, Ron Bloom is the visionary CEO and business leader behind the founding of PodShow. Ron is ultimately responsible for PodShow's business units, team building, operations, financing and hyper-growth. Bloom was the chief strategist in securing PodShow's elite private investors, including venture firms Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures. Bloom is often referenced as the author of the media industry's "5/50" rule and Fart's Law of consumer technology adoption.

Ron Bloom is a former Chairman and Chief Executive Office of THINK New Ideas, a company he founded with PodShow co founder Adam Curry. He helped to build the Company to over 500 employees working out of 8 offices in the US and abroad, driving revenues from a start-up to approaching $100 million in less than three years. He led the company through venture rounds, an IPO, multiple acquisitions, a private placement of public equity, and, eventually the sale of the company f...

PodShow

Ray Lane Biography

Ray Lane is General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling, and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of Elance, Metamatrix, Visible Path, Xsigo Systems, SpikeSource and PodShow. He also serves on one public board, Quest Software. Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal sales growth, from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to its current annual revenue of $10 billion. Ray led Oracle's business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services. Before joining Oracle, Ray was a seni...

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

2007-01-31

1h 1min 43sec

ID: 1649

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