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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Stanford eCorner

Each week, experienced entrepreneurs and innovators come to Stanford University to candidly share lessons they’ve learned while developing, launching and scaling disruptive ideas. The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series is produced by Stanford eCorner during fall, winter and spring quarters.

Episodes

Sarah Friar (Nextdoor) - Building Better Online Communities

Nov 18 2020 • 46 MIN

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 & Stra...

Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - The Language of Technology

Nov 11 2020 • 42 MIN

Ravi Mhatre is a founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and focuses primarily on software/cloud infrastructure, applications and internet investments. Before starting Lightspeed, Mhatre wa...

Jessica Norwood (RUNWAY) and Rodney Sampson (OHUB) - Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice

Nov 4 2020 • 50 MIN

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-...

Eric Yuan (Zoom) and Santi Subotovksy (Emergence Capital) - Winning a Crowded Market

Oct 28 2020 • 49 MIN

After growing and leading the team that developed WebEx, Eric Yuan left his role as Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco in 2011 to found Zoom Video Communications. Santiago Subotovsky,...

Sylvia Acevedo (Path to the Stars) - Perseverance Creates Opportunity

Oct 21 2020 • 48 MIN

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 jou...

George Scangos (Vir Biotechnology) - Making a Difference in Biotech

Oct 14 2020 • 44 MIN

As the president and CEO of Vir Biotechnology, as well as in his role as head of BIO’s Coronavirus Collaboration Initiative, George Scangos has emerged as a global leader in the fight against COVID...