Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Jesse Fink, MissionPoint Capital Partners - Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur - Intersection of the Environment and Financial Markets

Audio Podcast: Intersection of the Environment and Financial Markets

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Retired serial entrepreneur Steve Blank interviews MissionPoint Capital co-founder Jesse Fink. The two discuss the manifold investment opportunities in alternative energies and environmental conservation.

Jesse Fink Biography

Jesse Fink is a founding partner of MissionPoint Capital and President and CEO of Marshall Street Management.

In 2004, MSM established MSM Capital Partners to manage its investment activities in the clean technology and environmental finance sectors.

Jesse was the COO of Walker Digital Inc. and Priceline.com and previously worked at Georgia-Pacific, Citicorp, and CUC International.

Jesse received a B.S. in Resource Management from the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry and an MBA from Syracuse University's School of Management.

In February of 2007, Jesse received the Cleantech Venture Network's "Leader of the Year" award.

MissionPoint Capital Partners

Steve Blank Biography

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in high technology companies and management. He is a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Graduate School of Engineering STVP Program.

Steve has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978. His last company, E.piphany, started in his living room. His other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company (Rocket Science Games).

Steve is on the board of CafePress.com, an on-line marketplace, and IMVU, a 3D IM social network.

Steve was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Coastal Commission and is the Chairman of Audubon California and on the board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST.)

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Serial Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

2008-01-30

57min 51sec

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