Oct. 3, 2018 | ETL with Maureen Fan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO at Baobab Studios, an Emmy-award winning virtual reality animation studio. Before Baobab Studios, Fan held several senior production and project management roles, including VP of Games at Zynga. With interests in film, gaming and the consumer web, she’s been named one of The Most... Read More
Oct. 10, 2018 | ETL with Manish Chandra
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Manish Chandra, founder and CEO at Poshmark, a social marketplace platform for buying and selling clothing items. Before Poshmark, Manish founded Kaboodle, also a social shopping company. He has experience as a software engineer at Intel and as a marketing executive at Versant, Versata and Sybase. Manish graduated from... Read More
Oct. 17, 2018 | ETL with Puneet Agarwal
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures. Before True Ventures, Agarwal began his career as a product manager at a software startup later sold to IBM. After, he worked in tech investment banking and venture capital at the Mayfield Fund. Agarwal has several years of experience in product management and... Read More
Oct. 24, 2018 | ETL with Tina Seelig and guests
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Tina Seelig and alumni guests Steve Garrity and Juliet Rothenberg. Seelig is a professor of the practice within the Department of Management Science & Engineering (MS&E), faculty co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and author. At Stanford, Seelig has taught courses on on creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship... Read More
Oct. 31, 2018 | ETL with Adam Pisoni
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Adam Pisoni, founder and CEO of Abl Schools, an educational resource management software. Before founding Abl Schools, he founded a web-design startup, Cnation, which led him to join Geni, a genealogy website. From ideas rooted in his time at Geni, Pisoni later co-founded Yammer, a social network for businesses... Read More
Nov. 7, 2018 | ETL with Emily Melton
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Emily Melton, partner at the venture capital firm DFJ. Melton began her career in entrepreneurship at DFJ, where she spent eight years building her skillset investing in companies like Meebo, Kudo and Flux. She worked at the Mayfield Fund for a just over a year, where she was involved... Read More
Nov. 14, 2018 | ETL with Brad Bao
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Brad Bao, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LimeBike. Bao co-founded Lime after researching bike-sharing programs around the globe and seeing the potential impact that smarter, modern bike-sharing could have on urban mobility and sustainability. Prior to Lime, Brad co-founded Kinzon Capital, a $400M high-tech venture fund, where he acted... Read More
Nov. 28, 2018 | ETL with Dan Widmaier
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Dan Widmaier, co-founder and CEO at Bolt Threads, a biotech startup that produces biofabricated silk fibers based on proteins found in nature. With experience in both business development and science, Widmaier uses expertise in biology to lead Bolt Threads through tech development and financing. Widmaier graduated from UC San... Read More
Jan. 16, 2019 | ETL with Ryan Petersen
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport. Flexport is modernizing the ancient and sprawling global trade industry through a unique blend of technology, logistics infrastructure and deep supply chain expertise. In 2018, Inc. named Flexport one the fastest growing companies in the United States. Last year, Petersen led Flexport... Read More
Jan. 30, 2019 | ETL with Elaine Wherry
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Elaine Wherry, co-founder of Meebo, an instant messaging and social networking service that was acquired by Google. Prior to Meebo, Wherry worked at Synaptics designing input devices and leading Human Factors research. Wherry graduated from Stanford with a degree in Symbolic Systems and a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. The... Read More
Feb. 6, 2019 | ETL with Balaji Srinivasan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Balaji Srinivasan, CTO of Coinbase, a secure platform for buying, selling and storing cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which serves more than 20 million users. Prior to Coinbase, Srinivasan was CEO of Coinbase-acquired Earn.com, a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz as well as Co-Founder and CTO of Counsyl, where... Read More
Feb. 13, 2019 | ETL with Raj Kapoor and John Viera
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a special conversation on the future of automotive mobility with Raj Kapoor, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft, and John Viera, a former Director at Ford, hosted by Pedram Mokrian, an Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Kapoor focuses on autonomous (self-driving) business opportunities and new business at Lyft.... Read More
Feb. 20, 2019 | ETL with Alice Zhang
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Alice Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Verge Genomics. Verge Genomics uses artificial intelligence and human genomics to transform drug discovery for multiple diseases beginning with ALS, Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimer's Disease. Zhang has driven systems biology research at the National Cancer Institute, the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at... Read More
Feb. 27, 2019 | ETL with Navin Chaddha
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Navin Chaddha, Managing Director at the venture capital firm Mayfield Fund. Chaddha has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has been ranked ten times by Forbes on the Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors. A former serial entrepreneur, Chaddha co-founded three companies,... Read More
Mar. 6, 2019 | ETL with Alberto Savoia
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Alberto Savoia, Innovation Agitator Emeritus at Google. An engineer, engineering executive and CTO, Savoia helped develop, manage and launch products such as Sun Microsystem's Workstations, SunLab's Java and Google’s AdWords. Savoia developed a rapid proto-typing technique called pretotyping that allows for product testing without actually building a product. Savoia... Read More
April 10, 2019 | ETL with Freada Kapor Klein
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Freada Kapor Klein, a founding partner at Kapor Capital and a pioneer in the field of organizational and cultural diversity. At Kapor Capital, Kapor Klein focuses on providing seed-stage funding to technology startups that make a positive social impact on low income communities and communities of color. Through her... Read More
April 17, 2019 | ETL with Ritu Narayan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Ritu Narayan, founder and CEO of Zūm, a rapidly growing ride and care company for children. Prior to founding Zūm, Narayan held senior product management roles at Oracle, Yahoo! and eBay, and also founded TechX, an organization that connected the Stanford community with founders, CEOs and technology thought leaders.... Read More
April 24, 2019 | ETL with Nicole Hu
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Nicole Hu, co-founder and chief technology officer of One Concern, which aims to help communities prepare for and mitigate natural disasters by harnessing the power of predictive AI. In 2016, Forbes named Hu one of the world’s top enterprise technology innovators in its “30 Under 30” list. Hu earned... Read More
May 1, 2019 | ETL with Payam Banazadeh
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Payam Banazadeh, the founder and CEO of Capella Space. Capella Space launched its first prototype satellite in December 2018 and aims to build a global satellite-based radar network to solve problems in areas like agriculture, infrastructure monitoring and disaster response. Before founding Capella Space in 2016, Banazadeh worked at... Read More
May 8, 2019 | ETL with Toby Corey
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Toby Corey, a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded several influential companies, including USWeb Corporation and Intend Change, and has also served in senior management roles at companies including SolarCity and Tesla. Corey is the president of global field operations at PlanGrid, which provides mobile software tools to the construction... Read More
May 15, 2019 | ETL with Chip Conley
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Chip Conley, who founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality at age 26 and grew the company into the second largest boutique hotel brand in the United States. An author of five books, most recently Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, Conley has been named “Most Innovative CEO”... Read More
May 22, 2019 | ETL with Luminary
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Luminary Media co-founders Matthew Sacks and Lauren Perkins. Sacks and Perkins created Luminary Media in 2018 to make an impact on the growing podcast market, and the platform’s initial round of original content production includes podcasts with Lena Dunham, Guy Raz, Hannibal Buress and Russell Brand. Sacks, Luminary Media’s... Read More
May 29, 2019 | ETL with Christine Yen
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Christine Yen, the co-founder of Honeycomb. Honeycomb’s core product is a tool that helps product development teams understand and debug complex software systems. Prior to founding Honeycomb, Yen was an engineer at Parse both before and after its 2013 acquisition by Facebook. She also founded Venuetastic, an event... Read More
Oct. 2, 2019 | ETL with Sarah Nahm
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesIn 2012, inspired by the HR headaches they’d observed working for technology companies, Sarah Nahm and a few friends founded Lever, a talent recruitment platform aimed at transforming the hiring process with intuitive yet data-driven software. Two years later, in 2014, she was named CEO. At Lever, Nahm has been just as focused on her... Read More
Oct. 9, 2019 | ETL with Jennifer Tejada
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesNot long after landing at PagerDuty in 2016, Jennifer Tejada embarked on that harrowing rite of passage for CEOs of fortunate young startups: the pursuit of an IPO. The company’s goal was to build and scale a new kind of incident management platform for software developers, one that wouldn’t just monitor technology infrastructure, but also... Read More
Oct. 16, 2019 | ETL with Barbara Liskov
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesBarbara Liskov was already breaking new ground in 1968, when she became one of the first American women to earn a doctorate in the emerging discipline of computer science. After receiving that PhD at Stanford, she went on to design several influential programming languages, including CLU, an important precursor to Java. More recently, as an... Read More
Oct. 23, 2019 | ETL with Edith Harbaugh
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United States“I started off in engineering, was frustrated that smart people kept building products no one wanted, so became a product manager to build what people wanted,” says LaunchDarkly CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh in an interview published last year on Medium. “I then saw that you could build the right thing, but if no one... Read More
Oct. 30, 2019 | ETL with Srin Madipalli
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesAfter travelling the world for six months in 2011, Srin Madipalli quit his job as a lawyer and joined the MBA program at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School. A power wheelchair user living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Madipalli was particularly attracted to tech and startups, and quickly focused in on the power of... Read More
Nov. 6, 2019 | ETL with Aileen Lee
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesIn 2013, Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” to refer to the growing field of startups with $1 billion valuations. At the time, she was a year into her role as a founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, and her team was preparing a now-influential internal report examining how (and how often) companies with... Read More
Nov. 13, 2019 | ETL with Arlan Hamilton
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesArlan Hamilton is a remarkable entrepreneur who built a venture capital fund from the ground up, while homeless. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Started in 2015,... Read More
Nov. 20, 2019 | ETL with Laura Gomez
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United States“Always ask, when you’re using a tool with AI, ‘Who’s the founder, who’s the data scientist?’” advises Atipica CEO and co-founder Laura Gomez in an interview she did for VMWare earlier this year. Concerned with the ways that AI and machine learning often reveal biases against already marginalized groups, Gomez created a platform that uses... Read More
Jan. 15, 2020 | ETL with Sam Yam
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesIn 2013, Sam Yam teamed up with his former Stanford roommate Jack Conte to create Patreon, a platform that connects content creators with members who provide recurring revenue. As co-founder and CTO, Yam has built Patreon into a service that has funded more than one hundred thousand creatives, channelling an estimated one billion dollars to... Read More
Jan. 22, 2020 | ETL with Melinda Thomas
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesDrawing on her experience starting and leading health companies like CardioDx and ParAllele, Melinda Thomas co-founded Octave Bioscience in 2014. Octave is developing a care management platform for neurodegenerative diseases, starting with multiple sclerosis. The company aims to improve patient management decisions and create better outcomes while also lowering costs. Prior to co-founding Octave, Thomas... Read More
Jan. 29, 2020 | ETL with Kulveer Taggar
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesKulveer Taggar is the co-founder and CEO of Zeus Living, a tech-driven property management company focused on disrupting the corporate housing market. The company raised a $55 million Series B round in December 2019, and has already hosted more than 17,000 residents in its furnished units. Two years after earning his master’s degree in policy,... Read More
Feb. 5, 2020 | ETL with Kate Rosenbluth
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesAs a Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Kate Rosenbluth was captivated by the unmet need to treat hand tremors. She discovered that the site of deep brain stimulation was accessible through the peripheral nerves in the wrist, and teamed up with Scott Delp, director of the Stanford Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab, to found Cala Health, where she... Read More
Feb. 12, 2020 | ETL with Omar Tawakol
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesBacked by corporate investors that included Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, Omar Tawakol founded Voicea in 2017, and served as the company’s CEO until its acquisition by Cisco in September 2019. Voicea’s core offering is EVA, the most widely adopted in-meeting AI assistant. EVA records and transcribes meetings, generates highlights, and pushes relevant meeting content... Read More
Feb. 19, 2020 | ETL with Mar Hershenson
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesMar Hershenson co-founded Pear VC in 2013, and the firm has since made seed and pre-seed investments in category-defining companies like DropBox, Gusto, DoorDash and Branch Metrics. Before she moved into venture investing, Hershenson earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford, and leveraged that technical background to co-found three startups in the mobile/e-commerce, enterprise... Read More
Feb. 26, 2020 | ETL with Mark Gainey
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesMark Gainey is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strava, which launched in 2009 as a web platform that allowed cyclists to track their rides via GPS devices. Two years later, Strava had only around 5,000 members, but soon the rise of GPS-enabled mobile phones and wearable fitness trackers kicked the company into high gear.... Read More
Apr. 8, 2020 | ETL with Annie Kadavy
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 8. Watch the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series kickoff live, with Annie Kadavy, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures! Begin streaming on Wednesday, April 8th at 4:30 at youtube.com/ecorner. Annie Kadavy is a managing director at Redpoint Ventures, a firm that emphasizes early-stage investing... Read More
Apr. 15, 2020 | ETL with Heidi Roizen
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 15. Heidi Roizen is a partner at Threshold Ventures, and currently serves on the boards of Zoox, Planet, Memphis Meats, HelixRE and DMGT. She earned her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford, then co-founded T/Maker, where she served as CEO for over a... Read More
Apr. 22, 2020 | ETL with Amy Francetic
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 22. Amy Francetic is a managing partner at Buoyant Ventures, a new Chicago-based venture fund that invests in digital climate solutions in North America. In 2009, she co-founded Clean Energy Trust, a technology accelerator that serves the Midwestern US and helps launch new... Read More
Apr. 29, 2020 | ETL with Joseph Tsai
YouTube Livestream (Virtual Speaker)View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 29. Joe Tsai is a co-founder and the executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, a global Internet technology company based in China with a portfolio that includes e-commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment. Tsai joined Jack Ma and others to incorporate the... Read More
May 6, 2020 | ETL with Andy Karsner
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, May 6. Now a senior strategist and “Space Cowboy” at X, the “moonshot factory” at Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Andy Karsner has spent the past two decades driving renewable energy innovation and other climate solutions. In addition to his role at X, Karsner is... Read More
May 20, 2020 | ETL with Alexi Robichaux
YouTube Livestream (Virtual Speaker)View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, May 20. Alexi Robichaux is the co-founder and CEO of BetterUp, a mobile-based platform that brings personalized professional coaching to employees at all levels. BetterUp uses evidence-based assessments and machine learning to match employees to coaches who can encourage lasting behavior change. Prior to... Read More
May 27, 2020 | ETL with Kevin Systrom
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, May 27. When Kevin Systrom first visited ETL in May 2011, Instagram had just launched the previous October. He and co-founder Mike Krieger spoke about how, as two young Stanford alums, they leveraged their education in engineering and entrepreneurship to create an unexpectedly viral... Read More
June 17, 2020 | ETL with Julie Zhuo
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, June 17. Julie Zhuo is the co-founder of Inspirit, an advisory firm that partners with fast-scaling tech companies to build and scale products that people love. Prior to founding Inspirit, she was the VP of design and research for the Facebook app, where she... Read More
June 24, 2020 | ETL with Joseph DeSimone
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, June 24. Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone co-founded Carbon in 2013 and served as the company’s CEO until being named Executive Chairman in 2019. As CEO, Joe grew Carbon from a small team of scientists and engineers into an over 400-person global company valued at... Read More
July 1, 2020 | ETL with Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, July 1. Beverly Parenti and Chris Redlitz are the co-founders of The Last Mile, an organization that aims to break the cycle of incarceration by providing education and career training opportunities in prisons. Founded in 2010 at San Quentin State Prison, The Last Mile... Read More
July 8, 2020 | ETL with Bonny Simi
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, July 8. Bonny Simi is the president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of JetBlue Airways that invests in and partners with early-stage startups that are improving the future of travel and hospitality. Simi remains an active JetBlue pilot and is also... Read More