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Live conversations from Stanford with tech innovators and changemakers that will inspire your inner-entrepreneur.
When: Wednesdays, 4:30 - 5:20 pm
Where: YouTube Livestream
Audience: Open to the public
* This week only, tune into the YouTube livestream at 1:00PM PDT for the live speaker event. All other weeks, tune in Wednesdays at 4:30PM PDT. * Delane Parnell is the founder and CEO of PlayVS, which is building the infrastructure for high school esports. Prior to starting PlayVS, Parnell worked at IncWell Venture Capital, where he became the youngest black venture capitalist in the United States. A lifelong entrepreneur, Parnell started his first job at 13, working 40-plus hours…
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 7. George Scangos, PhD, has served as Vir Biotechnology’s president and CEO and as a member of its board of directors since January 2017. He previously served as CEO and as a member of the board of directors of Biogen, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on treating neurological diseases, and also held roles as president and CEO of Exelixis, president of Bayer Biotechnology, and professor of biology…
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 14. An entrepreneur, investor, business leader, and rocket scientist, Sylvia Acevedo is the author of Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, which tells the story of her journey from the Las Cruces, New Mexico to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and then onto executive positions at Apple, Dell, IBM and other leading tech companies. During the Obama administration, she was a Commissioner of…
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 21. Eric Yuan founded Zoom Video Communications in 2011. Prior to starting Zoom, he was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice President of Engineering at WebEx, Yuan grew the WebEx team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide, and contributed to revenue growth of $800M. He is a named…
Eric Yuan
Santiago Subotovsky
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View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 28. Jessica Norwood is the founder of RUNWAY, an organization that uses entrepreneurship to close the wealth gap in Black communities by providing pre-seed and friends-and-family capital to fund Black-owned companies. A financial activist and social entrepreneur, Norwood is a Center for Economic Democracy fellow, a lifelong fellow of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Southern University College of Business, the Political Power Fellow…
Jessica Norwood
Rodney Sampson
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, November 4. In 1999, Ravi Mhatre founded Lightspeed Venture Partners, a VC firm that has focused on enterprise IT, mobile, and internet and cloud-based services and applications. The firm’s investments have since spurred more than a dozen companies to acquisition and five to IPO. Recently, Mhatre has broadened his horizons to invest in consumer businesses like Cheddar and Stitch Fix. Before entering venture capital, Mhatre ran a product management…
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, November 11. In December 2018, Sarah Friar was named CEO of Nextdoor, the world’s largest private social network for neighborhoods. Prior to leading Nextdoor, she was CFO of Square and SVP of Finance & Strategy at Salesforce. She also held executive roles at Goldman Sachs, as well as leadership positions at McKinsey in both London and South Africa. She serves on the boards of Walmart and Slack, and is…
