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:

 U.S. Leadership in Innovation - Meg Whitman, Tina Seelig (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:01

Tech executive Meg Whitman talks about how America’s long-held position as the most innovative country in the world is being threatened by the rise of China and other nations, and how “STEM” subjects must be taught more robustly to U.S. school-age children. “We are at the beginning of the revolution in science, technology, engineering and math — even though we’re 50 years in,” Whitman says.

 Changing Company Culture - Meg Whitman, Tina Seelig (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:03:35

Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, discusses the difficulty of changing a company’s culture and how the key is to focus on a few core values and constantly repeat the message. Whitman also stresses the importance of identifying the obstacles standing in the way of change, and making sure the message is just as clear to far-flung groups within a large organization.

 Always Do Your Best - Meg Whitman, Tina Seelig (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:35

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Meg Whitman explains how having some humility at her first job after earning an MBA from Harvard Business School helped her shine in front of supervisors. She recalls being given an assignment that, initially, she felt was beneath her and should’ve gone to someone else. But by committing to do the best job possible, Whitman says she came to understand a timeless lesson about business.

 Owning Tomorrow’s Industries - Meg Whitman, Tina Seelig (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:03:17

Tech CEO Meg Whitman, who ran for governor of California in 2010, offers possible solutions for how the United States can address the loss of blue-collar jobs because of automation, which she says will only increase. According to Whitman, the nation must identify which industries of the future it wants to “own,” and then design an educational system that will train people to thrive in those sectors.

 How Do You Want to be Remembered? - Meg Whitman, Tina Seelig (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:04:06

Meg Whitman describes two moments during her tenure as president and CEO of eBay when the e-commerce site was faced with having to make choices that would reveal the company’s values and character. eBay’s leadership ultimately agreed to ban the sale of Nazi memorabilia and bootleg copies of a violent video game. Whitman underscores the importance of always doing what’s right, because “the only thing you take with you, through your career, is your reputation.”

 Evolving With Your Company [Entire Talk] - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:56:29

Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker was humbled when he stepped down as CEO of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile security that went from being a three-man startup to a public company with nearly 1,000 employees, earning $150 million a year. Over those eight years, however, he learned how to position a business just right, how a CEO’s job and behavior must change over time, and how a leader can develop the self-awareness to adapt.

 Success Changes a CEO - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:04:45

Drawing from his experience as founding CEO of MobileIron, Bob Tinker talks about how a company’s top officer must evolve as the business grows. He discusses how the drive to be hands on when a venture is small can be detrimental as it scales. “Instead of doing a lot of things for a lot of people, you have to change your way of thinking, and instead be doing fewer things for a lot more people,” Tinker says.

 Subtler Skills of Leadership - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:29

Aside from the typical traits associated with strong leaders — like vision, determination and execution — Bob Tinker points out equally important skills that aren’t talked about as often but are essential for any CEO. Among them, according the co-founder of MobileIron, are an ability to develop an acute self-awareness, to balance confidence and vigilance, and to be persuasive to a broad set of stakeholders.

 Achieving ‘Go-to-Market Fit’ - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:03:38

MobileIron Co-Founder Bob Tinker describes the next challenge for a startup after figuring out product-market fit, and that’s achieving what he calls “go-to-market fit.” This entails three things: deciding on a sales model and committing to it, developing a repeatable sales and marketing routine that secures and delights new customers, and positioning the business so it aligns perfectly with the problem it is addressing.

 Culture is a Company’s Soul - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:44

Bob Tinker, founding CEO of MobileIron, explains that entrepreneurs can choose to proactively build company culture or let it form organically. Either way, founders should be deliberate about how workplace culture develops and know that it becomes set when the team grows to 20 members, according to Tinker. In eight years, his startup grew from the three co-founders into a workforce of nearly 1,000 employees before it went public.

 The Founder’s Oath - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:14

Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker goes over what he calls the “Founder Oath,” which consists of several pledges: to separate ego from the business, to always serve the company and the team, and to acknowledge that clashes among co-founders can kill a startup. The fourth promise states, “If the company is fortunate enough to grow beyond me, I will step aside gracefully for the good of the mission.”

 Take Mental Pictures - Bob Tinker (MobileIron) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:01:50

Bob Tinker, co-founder and board member of MobileIron, shares wisdom analogous to the familiar phrase, “Stop and smell the roses.” He recalls how a skydiving instructor once advised him before the jump that, despite the adrenaline rush during the fall — which for some is nothing but a blur afterward due to the sensory overload — to remember to “slow your brain down and take mental pictures.”

 Playing With Purpose [Entire Talk] - Brendan Boyle, Tina Seelig (IDEO) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:55:08

It may not be rocket science, but there’s still much to consider when inventing children's toys, starting with all the ideas for what to build. Within the famous design firm IDEO, a small team toils away in a toy lab founded by Brendan Boyle, who also teaches design thinking at Stanford University. In conversation with Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, Boyle discusses the importance of playfulness, divergent thinking and creativity in making toys.

 Taking a Cue from Kids - Brendan Boyle, Tina Seelig (IDEO) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:03:04

Brendan Boyle, partner at IDEO and founder of the design firm’s toy lab, demonstrates one of its inventions to show how observing user behavior is applied in product development. In conversation with Tina Seelig, professor of the practice in Stanford’s Department of Management Science & Engineering, Boyle explains how rapid prototyping involves high-fidelity thinking and low-fidelity models, whether they’re digital or physical.

 How to Brainstorm Better - Brendan Boyle, Tina Seelig (IDEO) | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 00:02:06

Toy inventor Brendan Boyle talks about key concepts for making brainstorming sessions more effective, like including those adept at the technique and bringing together divergent and convergent thinkers. Boyle, a partner at IDEO who teaches the course “From Play to Innovation” at Stanford’s design school, speaks with creativity expert Tina Seelig, faculty co-director at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

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