Startups Venture Capital Decisionmaking [Entire Talk] Annie Kadavy, Redpoint Ventures with Tina Seelig, Stanford University Watch Now 47 minutes Video
Startups Building Billion Dollar Businesses [Entire Talk] Ravi Belani, Stanford University Watch Now 43 minutes Video
Leila Janah, Samasource Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work [Entire Talk] Get out in the world to understand society's biggest challenges and where your efforts are most needed. × Close Video Clips Leila Janah, Samasource Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work [Entire Talk] Get out in the world to understand society's biggest challenges and where your efforts are most needed. Video Clips 1 minutes Work on What Matters Most 2 minutes What Fair-Trade Needs to Do Next 3 minutes Putting a Face on Consumer Products 3 minutes Dispelling Western Paternalism 3 minutes Social Mission First 4 minutes Challenging the Charity Model 4 minutes Seeing Potential in the Most Poor View Video Clips
Leila Janah, Samasource Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work Get out in the world to understand society's biggest challenges and where your efforts are most needed.
Clip 5 of 5 Clip 5 of 5 from: Ingenuity Derived from Self-Driving Cars [Entire Talk] Chris Gerdes, Stanford University Be Bold and Nimble Stanford mechanical engineering Professor Chris Gerdes explains his team's research comparing the performance of their automated vehicle, Shelley, versus two professional race car drivers. The humans had a slight edge over Shelley because they drove their car to its limits and adapted to the path that opened up in the moment - an insight entrepreneurs should heed, Gerdes says.
Clip 2 of 3 Clip 2 of 3 from: Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change [Entire Talk] Patrick Brown, Impossible Foods Immediate Impact Through Entrepreneurship Impossible Foods Founder and CEO Patrick Brown discusses how his decision to leave academia and become an entrepreneur was based on his passion to make the greatest impact he possibly could with his work. He says launching a business wasn't his first instinct for addressing the environmental harm caused by cattle, but he realized a startup was the quickest way to get a solution to market and gauge success.
Clip 1 of 3 Clip 1 of 3 from: Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change [Entire Talk] Patrick Brown, Impossible Foods The Learning Curve for Pitching Secure funding by selling the size of the market and the potential for impact.
Clip 4 of 6 Clip 4 of 6 from: Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing [Entire Talk] Amy Chang, Cisco Confront Your Concerns Accompany CEO Amy Chang talks about paying attention to concerns that stick with you day after day and finding ways to confront and act on them. She reflects on the eight years she spent launching and leading Google's analytics division, and how torn she was about leaving. Internally, we already know what needs to be done, Chang says. It's just that change can be scary.
Clip 1 of 6 Clip 1 of 6 from: Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing [Entire Talk] Amy Chang, Cisco Choose Board Members Wisely Amy Chang, whose startup uses artificial intelligence to help professionals manage business relationships, says entrepreneurs should give serious thought to who they pick to sit on their board of directors. Board members typically serve for seven to 10 years, so it's important to know if they can weather the ups and downs of a startup, says Chang, founder and CEO of Accompany.
Clip 8 of 9 Clip 8 of 9 from: Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk] Tristan Harris, Time Well Spent The Persuadable Brain Ask yourself, is there a gap between your values and your metrics? Do your metrics for success undermine or support your most altruistic and aspirational goals?
Clip 5 of 9 Clip 5 of 9 from: Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk] Tristan Harris, Time Well Spent An Arms Race for Your Attention Pay attention to incentives. What is the actual thing that you are beholden to? Everything else is an aspirational myth. The metrics you are beholden to dictate every element of your organization.
Rich Barton, Zillow Group Empower People with Information Find ways to help people make better decisions. Harness technology to increase transparency and access information.
Clip 4 of 7 Clip 4 of 7 from: Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Rich Barton, Zillow Group Maintaining Cohesiveness at Scale Zillow Group Co-Founder Rich Barton talks about processes that startups must put in place as their workforce grows into the hundreds. Despite their bureaucratic reputation, certain practices that maintain a clarity of mission and culture of collegiality are critical for larger companies in order for them to stay driven and focused on success, according to Barton, the co-founder of Expedia, Glassdoor and the Zillow Group of real-estate sites.
Clip 3 of 7 Clip 3 of 7 from: Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Rich Barton, Zillow Group The Rise of ‘Smart Assistants’ Rich Barton, co-founder of popular sites such as Expedia, Zillow and Glassdoor, says the deluge of information and options confronting consumers has given rise to a major business opportunity: "smart assistants" that can sift through everything, make recommendations, and even anticipate what we want. Consumers have grown accustomed to immediacy in the digital age, Barton notes.
Rich Barton, Zillow Group Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Find ways to help people make better decisions. Harness technology to increase transparency and access information. × Close Video Clips Rich Barton, Zillow Group Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Find ways to help people make better decisions. Harness technology to increase transparency and access information. Video Clips 5 minutes Engineering Isn't Everything 2 minutes A Question of Control 2 minutes The Rise of 'Smart Assistants' 4 minutes Maintaining Cohesiveness at Scale 4 minutes Wisdom via ‘The Wizard of Oz' 1 minutes Our Need for Autonomy 4 minutes Hatching a BHAG View Video Clips
Clip 6 of 6 Clip 6 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Curing the Imposter Syndrome Challenges can seem less intimidating when you see someone you can relate to take them on, explains Sandy Jen, co-founder of senior-care startup Honor. She recalls how witnessing her boyfriend in college embracing entrepreneurship wholeheartedly began to melt the fears and insecurities she grew up with - and emboldened her to become an "unlikely entrepreneur" herself.
Clip 5 of 6 Clip 5 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Draw Confidence from Your Accomplishments When you doubt your abilities or expertise, remembering all the hard work you've done to date can be a source of confidence, says entrepreneur Sandy Jen. She describes how plagued with doubt she was while launching her first startup, and how she built up a reservoir of courage by taking stock of her accomplishments along the way, which helped her get through especially stressful times.
Clip 4 of 6 Clip 4 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Let Your Ideas Run Naked Sandy Jen, co-founder of senior-care startup Honor, talks about how young entrepreneurs often keep their ideas to themselves so others won't steal them. But, referencing the metaphor of projects as the "babies" we want to hold tight and protect, Jen notes that all infants love to run around naked. "Ideas don't grow in a vacuum," she says. "Ideas only improve if you get feedback."
Clip 3 of 6 Clip 3 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Startups: A Seven-Year Commitment Serial entrepreneur Sandy Jen discusses the average length of a startup's life and how the amount of time and effort it requires means anyone who wants to launch a venture should work on meaningful problems and strive for huge impact. She explains how the adrenaline that sustains the first-time entrepreneur gives way to experience and wisdom the next time around.
Clip 2 of 6 Clip 2 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Worklife Balance: Difficult But Doable There's no magic formula for balancing work and life for the entrepreneur, but it is possible, says Sandy Jen, co-founder of two tech startups. Herself a mother, Jen describes how she knows numerous entrepreneur parents, including fellow co-founders, who meet their obligations to family and firm by staying passionately focused on their mission.
Clip 1 of 6 Clip 1 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Stick to a Timeline Aspiring entrepreneurs who worry about the risk of financial loss if they fail should set milestones to measure progress against, advises Sandy Jen, co-founder of senior-care startup Honor. An overall timeline for a new venture can serve as a boundary on how much of your resources you invest - though, the only way to know if a product or service will succeed is to build it and see if people want it, Jen says.
Sandy Jen, Honor The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Fight imposter syndrome. You can do it. × Close Video Clips Sandy Jen, Honor The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Fight imposter syndrome. You can do it. Video Clips 2 minutes Stick to a Timeline 3 minutes Worklife Balance: Difficult But Doable 4 minutes Startups: A Seven-Year Commitment 2 minutes Let Your Ideas Run Naked 4 minutes Draw Confidence from Your Accomplishments 5 minutes Curing the Imposter Syndrome View Video Clips
Mike Peña, Stanford University Entrepreneurship Will Steer Self-Driving Cars Forward Small and agile startups will outmaneuver tech giants by staying singularly focused on autonomous vehicles and niche products.
Michael Dearing, Harrison Metal The Basic Hygiene of Management Effective leaders act as editor-in-chief. They deploy resources with focus and discipline. They develop the confidence both to launch and to end product lines.
Clip 4 of 4 Clip 4 of 4 from: The Ethics of Innovation [Entire Talk] Toni Townes-Whitley, Microsoft Disproportionate Job Displacement Toni Townes-Whitley, Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector and Industry at Microsoft, underscores the need for today's leaders to think about how technology can magnify social ills even as it improves business. She cites World Economic Forum forecasts showing that, in the year 2020, the creation of digital jobs will disproportionately displace women because of their high numbers in labor categories that are ripe for disruption.