Nov 2025
Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook
<p>Eric Volmar is teaching lead at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford. His work focuses on connecting defense, academia, and entrepreneurship to accelerate innovation for national security, supporting new ventures at the intersection of technolog ... Show More
48m 43s
Nov 2025
Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work
<p>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 settings. Her new book, <em>Like a Wave We Break: a Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself</em>, tells the story of her globe- ... Show More
30m 48s
May 2024
#206 The Venture Mindset with Ilya Strebulaev, Economist & Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business
In almost every industry, the rate of innovation is increasing, and this is great for consumers around the globe. However, with constant innovation and continual disruption of the status quo, where to innovate next becomes much harder to identify. If your industry hasn’t been dis ... Show More
1 h
Nov 2024
111. The Future of Crypto, feat. Galaxy Co-Founder Steve Kurz
Send a textSteve Kurz vaulted from early days at a worm poop startup (yes, that's a real thing) to the fast track of traditional finance, only to find himself with a front row seat to the Global Financial Crisis. Steve took the lessons he learned in traditional finance at legenda ... Show More
1h 22m
Jun 2024
Innovation via Spinout Culture
Join Tom Wheelwright as he discovers how we can create a culture that invites and encourages innovation within our small business with his guest, André Laplume.<br /> <br /> Dr. André Laplume, co-author of SPINOUT VENTURES, is a full professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at ... Show More
37m 43s
Sep 2021
Be The Boss Of Your Own Life With Leena Khalil
In this episode, Leena Khalil demystifies the world of entrepreneurship by sharing her incredible journey from bringing Mumzwolrd to life by being its co-founder, to giving it away. Being an absolute powerhouse of experience in finance and entrepreneurship, Leena shares her story ... Show More
47m 50s
Jan 2025
234 Matt Fiordaliso - Bridging Machine Learning & Finance
<p>It seems wherever you go, working professionals and companies are talking and strategizing about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ChatGPT. And many of those conversations have taken place fairly recently. But before all the buzz, way back in 2016, Ai Spark began ... Show More
15m 14s
Nov 2024
MI376: Why Do Great Companies Fail? The Innovator’s Dilemma w/ Shawn O’Malley
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@shawn_OMalley_) discusses why great companies fail, as outlined by Clayton Christensen in his timeless book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, which was first published in 1997. The Economist actually named it one of the six most important business boo ... Show More
45m 4s
Jan 2025
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder
<p>Two-time founder Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure. </p><p>After dropping out of college to build FlightCar, he worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC. </p><p>In 2020, he co-founded Zip, a procurement softwar ... Show More
24m 31s
Recorded live at the capstone celebration of the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial, this ETL episode features Sergey Brin, the American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page and revolutionized global information access. Brin remains an active co-founder and board member of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and he ... Show More
<p>Special Bonus Episode! Charlie has The McNeil Team from the Colorado School of Mines, this year's EPIC location, on to get to know them bit more. <br/> <br/><b>The McNeil Team</b></p><p><b>Sid Hanna Saleh, Ph.D. – McNeil Center Director and Associate Professor</b></p><p>A ... Show More
