podcast

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

by Stanford eCorner

Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity

03.06.2026 • 00:46:55

Ryan Nece is co-founder and managing partner of Next Legacy Partners, a multi-strategy venture platform investing in established venture firms, emergi...

Jake Miller (Fellow) - Designing Products Around Customer Experience

27.05.2026 • 00:49:15

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 cou...

Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space

20.05.2026 • 00:50:27

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 ...

Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures) - A People-Centered Journey

13.05.2026 • 00:46:10

Elizabeth Weil is the founder and general partner at Scribble Ventures, the seed fund where builders from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, Instagram, and a16z c...

Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup

06.05.2026 • 00:46:53

Tracy Chou is a product-minded engineering leader and exited founder with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling consumer and enterpris...

Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight

29.04.2026 • 00:49:49

Delightful and frictionless products convince customers to change their behavior.

Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography

22.04.2026 • 00:49:34

Co-founders with complementary skills can build trust through respect, communication, and tactical teamwork.

Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI

15.04.2026 • 00:47:19

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...

Sergey Brin (Google & Alphabet) - Google Origins and AI Futures

12.12.2025 • 01:09:34

Recorded live at the capstone celebration of the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial, this ETL episode features Sergey Brin, the American comput...

Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook

24.11.2025 • 00:48:43

Eric Volmar is teaching lead at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford. His work focuses on connecting defense, academia...