Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) - Be the Human Spark
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur, author, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He is the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and the author of...
Adam Nash (Daffy) - Making Great Products
Leaders create great products by bringing people together across engineering, design, and business.
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, emergi...
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 cou...
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 ...
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 c...
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 enterpris...
Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight
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
Co-founders with complementary skills can build trust through respect, communication, and tactical teamwork.
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...