podcast

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

by Stanford eCorner

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...

Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics

19.11.2025 • 00:45:52

Steve Cousins is the executive director of the Stanford Robotics Center and founder of Relay Robotics (formerly Savioke), which builds autonomous serv...

Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work

12.11.2025 • 00:30:48

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 set...

Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact

05.11.2025 • 00:45:24

Sanjit Biswas is the co-founder and CEO of Samsara, a global leader in allowing physical operations organizations to harness data, AI, and the Interne...

Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream

29.10.2025 • 00:47:30

Drew Endy is an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and a pioneer of synthetic biology. A co-founder of the BioBricks Foundat...

Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy

22.10.2025 • 00:47:28

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 milli...

Tina Seelig (Stanford University) - Catching the Winds of Luck

15.10.2025 • 00:43:26

Tina Seelig is an educator, entrepreneur, and bestselling author who has spent decades teaching creativity, innovation, and leadership at Stanford. Sh...