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In 2013, Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” to refer to the growing field of startups with $1 billion valuations. At the time, she was a year into her role as a founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, and her team was preparing a now-influential internal report examining how (and how often) companies with these massive valuations tend to emerge. Her summary of the report, published by TechCrunch, uncovered many insightful datapoints, but also revealed that only 2 of the 39 unicorns they studied had female co-founders, a finding that catalyzed her advocacy for increased diversity in technology startups. She more recently became a founding member of All Raise, a nonprofit organization devoted to increasing the representation of women in the venture-backed tech ecosystem. She describes her circuitous path to a job in venture capital, surfaces some of the central strategies of seed-stage investing, and encourages people from diverse backgrounds to help transform the venture capital business.
David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology
Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) - Lessons from a Large Founding Team
Margo Georgiadis (Flagship Pioneering and Montai Health) - Deep Tech Innovation
Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI
Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights
Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values
Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri (Pair Eyewear) - From Stanford Students to Co-CEOs
Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path
Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success
Bonus: ETL’s Emily Ma on Move Fast and Fix the Planet
Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]
Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey
Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World
Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights
Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies
Andrew Ng (AI Fund) - The Near Future of AI
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