Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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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, emerging venture firms, and select technology companies. A former Super Bowl champion, Nece transitioned from professional sports to ent ... Show more

. 46min 55sec

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 countries. In this conversation with Launchpad instructor and Adjunct Professor Perry Klebahn, Miller shares how he built a roadmap f ... Show more

. 49min 15sec

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 Hispanic director and the second female director of Johnson Space Center. She earned her MS in electrical engineering and her PhD ... Show more

. 50min 27sec

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 channel their operator DNA into backing the next generation of AI‑native companies. In this conversation with Adjunct Lecturer Emil ... Show more

. 46min 10sec

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 enterprise products. She is best known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech, and for being founder and CEO of Block ... Show more

. 46min 53sec