Stanford Entrepreneurship Videos show

Stanford Entrepreneurship Videos

Summary: The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

Podcasts:

 Unfiltered Insights From Instagram [Entire Talk] - Kevin Weil, Tina Seelig (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:59:18

What motivates you to share a photo on Instagram — or not? Kevin Weil, head of product at the company, discusses everything from user behavior to business strategy with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig. Weil describes how mission alignment helps teams succeed and allows Instagram to continue experimenting and thriving inside its parent company, Facebook.

 Preserve the Purity of Feedback - Kevin Weil, Tina Seelig (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:04

Kevin Weil, head of product at Instagram, describes how easy it is for one’s own biases and background to taint discussions with stakeholders. In conversation with Tina Seelig, professor of the practice in Stanford’s Department of Management Science & Engineering, Weil also stresses the importance of thinking about the problem you need to solve, not how difficult addressing it will be.

 Always Start Simply - Kevin Weil (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:18

Instagram’s head of product, Kevin Weil, shares a core principle that guides work for the popular social media platform: “Systems only get more complex as they grow. So you have to start simple,” Weil says. “If you start complex, you’re in trouble.” He also says starting out simple allows for low-cost experimentation before full product investment, as well as quick iteration.

 A Startup Acquires Superpowers - Kevin Weil, Tina Seelig (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:03

Instagram’s Kevin Weil describes how a startup can independently build products for its customers and still enjoy huge benefits within the larger company that acquired it. Now owned by Facebook, Instagram leverages the parent company’s infrastructure, sales operation and business network, says Weil, in conversation with Tina Seelig of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

 Accommodating Customers Worldwide - Kevin Weil (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:35

Kevin Weil, head of product at Instagram, talks about the issues that a consumer company must consider when most of its users live outside the United States: the devices they use, how they connect to the Internet, as well as different social norms. Weil says the photo-sharing app has 700 million users globally, only about 20 percent of whom live in America, and so does much user research abroad.

 Better People Make You Better - Kevin Weil (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:00

“People are everything,” says Kevin Weil, head of product at Instagram. “No one actually does anything on their own. Everything you accomplish, you accomplish with teams.” He explains how personal growth and professional advancement occur when you surround yourself with intelligent and highly skilled people who challenge you to improve and adopt a different perspective.

 Sharing Your Social Story - Kevin Weil (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:04:15

Kevin Weil, head of product at Instagram, discusses how the company introduced the “Stories” feature to help users feel more comfortable sharing photos again and reduce self-censoring. Inspired by an identical feature previously launched by Snapchat, Weil explains how Stories gives users exactly what they want: an ephemeral, person-oriented format that allows for private feedback.

 A Shared Understanding of Mission - Kevin Weil (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:41

Initially, startups are best led by a founder with a clear and specific vision, and a singular focus on achieving product-market fit, according to Kevin Weil, who worked at Twitter in its early days before joining Instagram. Once the business is established and grows, Weil says the mission should be shared knowledge so decision-making can be distributed and people can work toward a common goal.

 Everyone Gets What They Want - Kevin Weil (Instagram) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:52

Instagram’s head of product, Kevin Weil, describes optimal conditions for business sustainability, where the incentives of users and advertisers are perfectly aligned. For Instagram, the goal is to create a mutually beneficial relationship — connecting advertisers to the customers they need, while at the same time presenting users with brands they love.

 Life Hacks for Breakthrough Thinking [Entire Talk] - Olivia Fox Cabane, Judah Pollack (Author) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:53:52

Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack, co-authors of the book “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking,” share tips on how we can train ourselves to have more “eureka” moments with mental exercises that awaken more regions of our brains and build our comfort level with failure and uncertainty — two givens on the way to innovation.

 Our Brains are the Same - Judah Pollack (Author) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:15

Judah Pollack, co-author of “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking,” dispels the notion that certain people are predisposed to be geniuses. He explains that humans all have the same basic neural structures and cognition abilities, which can be “trained” to produce more innovative ideas through mental exercises — instead of being allowed to atrophy.

 Work Those Mental Muscles - Judah Pollack (Author) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:54

Judah Pollack, co-author of “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking,” shares two mental exercises for enhancing your imagination and exploring how you feel about such open-ended thinking. He describes how new ideas are the result of new neural pathways forming in the brain, and how the mind’s plasticity is core to having more breakthrough ideas.

 Connect Dots and Play - Judah Pollack (Author) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:01

Leadership speaker and strategic advisor Judah Pollack recounts the story of a longtime Ritz-Carlton Hotel executive who succeeded in turning a hospital into an innovation leader because his hospitality experience translated perfectly. Pollack also says playtime with children can lead to better pattern recognition and seeing things completely differently.

 Try Sleeping on It - Judah Pollack (Author) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:08:44

Judah Pollack illustrates the idea of mental "mode switching" from the task-oriented part of the brain to the more subconscious, artistic side with a cartoon depicting how Rolling Stones band member Keith Richards arrived at the idea for the breakthrough hit “Satisfaction.” Pollack is co-author of the book “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking.”

 Brains Don’t Know Any Better - Olivia Fox Cabane (Author) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:03:05

Leadership coach and speaker Olivia Fox Cabane discusses how the insecurities that fuel our negative self-image and lie behind what we commonly know as the “impostor syndrome” hinders breakthrough thinking. She shares tips for how to convince ourselves that we can be more creative, based on research she did for her new book, “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking.”

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