Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
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About the Show
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 (ETL) is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and published on eCorner by STVP.
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Regularly hosts outside guests
520 episodes — long track record
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Recent Episodes
S27E8 Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity
Ryan Nece is co-founder and managing partner of Next Legacy Partners, a multi-strategy venture platform investing in established venture firms, emerging venture firms, and select technology…
S27E7 Jake Miller (Fellow) - Designing Products Around Customer Experience
Jake Miller founded Fellow coming out of Stanford’s d.school Launchpad course, starting with the Duo Coffee Steeper. Fellow products are now in 50 countries. In this conversation with Launchpad…
S27E6 Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space
Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic woman astronaut to go into space, serving on four space shuttle missions. She served from 2013 to 2018 as the first Hispanic director and the second female director…
S27E5 Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures) - A People-Centered Journey
Elizabeth Weil is the founder and general partner at Scribble Ventures, the seed fund where builders from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, Instagram, and a16z channel their operator DNA into backing the next…
S27E4 Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup
Tracy Chou is a product-minded engineering leader and exited founder with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling consumer and enterprise products. She is best known for her work…
S27E3 Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight
Harry Tannenbaum is the co-founder and president of Mill, a technology company combining hardware and AI to reduce waste and recover value from everyday materials, starting with food. Mill’s…
S27E2 Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography
Stanford alumni Kit Rodgers, Paul Kocher, and Ben Jun co-founded Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI), where they built and deployed some of the world’s most impactful security technologies. CRI was…
S27E1 Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI
Brendan Foody co-founded Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley's top AI labs train their models to do professional-level reasoning by matching skilled workers with enterprise…
S26E8 Sergey Brin (Google & Alphabet) - Google Origins and AI Futures
Recorded live at the capstone celebration of the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial, this ETL episode features Sergey Brin, the American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded…
S26E7 Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook
Eric Volmar is teaching lead at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford. His work focuses on connecting defense, academia, and entrepreneurship to accelerate innovation…
S26E5 Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics
Steve Cousins is the executive director of the Stanford Robotics Center and founder of Relay Robotics (formerly Savioke), which builds autonomous service robots for hotels and healthcare. Cousins’…
S26E5 Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work
Jane Chen is the co-founder of Embrace Global, which created a low-cost infant warmer that has helped more than one million babies in low-resource settings. Her new book, Like a Wave We Break: a…
S26E4 Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact
Sanjit Biswas is the co-founder and CEO of Samsara, a global leader in allowing physical operations organizations to harness data, AI, and the Internet of Things. He started the company with the…
S26E3 Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream
Drew Endy is an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and a pioneer of synthetic biology. A co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation, Endy helped launch the International…
S26E1 Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy
Grant Lee is the CEO and Co-founder of Gamma, an AI-powered presentation and website design tool that has scaled to 50 million customers and $50 million in annual recurring revenue with fewer than 50…
S26E1 Tina Seelig (Stanford University) - Catching the Winds of Luck
Tina Seelig is an educator, entrepreneur, and bestselling author who has spent decades teaching creativity, innovation, and leadership at Stanford. She is the executive director of Knight-Hennessy…
S25E5 Samir Vasavada (Vise) - From Teenage Founder to Tech CEO
Samir Vasavada, co-founder and CEO of Vise, shares his inspiring journey from launching an AI-powered asset management startup as a teenager to raising more than $130M from top VCs like Sequoia and…
S25E4 Osi Imeokparia (Kode with Klossy) - Training Tech’s Next Gen [Entire Talk]
Founded by supermodel Karlie Kloss, Kode With Klossy teaches young women and gender expansive youth how to code. The organization supports a community of 11,000 from 100-plus countries over more than…
S25E3 Garrett Lord (Handshake) - The Network Effect
Garrett Lord started Handshake to make it easier for students from all backgrounds to find internships. Lord discusses his own experience studying computer science at Michigan Tech and the…
S25E2 Vinay Hiremath (LoomAI) - The Uncertainty After Success [Explicit]
Vinay Hiremath shares his entrepreneurial journey as the co-founder of LoomAI, a video messaging platform that grew to 30 million users and was acquired by Atlassian for nearly $1 billion. Vinay…
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