Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
Education
Jessica McKellar is the founder and CTO of Pilot, an accounting firm powered by software that has raised more than $160 million in venture capital funding. She also founded Zulip, a group collaboration tool that was acquired by Dropbox in 2014, and Ksplice, which was acquired by Oracle. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Emily Ma, McKellar discusses her 15-year journey founding three startups with her co-founders, as well as her passion for creating opportunities for the previously incarcerated.
Emily Melton (Threshold) - Focus On Forward Momentum
Adam Pisoni (Abl Schools) - Let Your Customers Educate You
Tina Seelig with Steve Garrity (Hearsay Systems) and Juliet Rothenberg (DeepMind) - Find Your Superpower, Launch Your Career
Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) - Strike the EQ/IQ Balance in Venture Capital
Manish Chandra (Poshmark) - Channeling an Adaptive Mindset
Maureen Fan (Baobab Studios) - Animating Against the Grain
Nancy Koehn (Harvard Business School), Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Tenacious Compassion: Leading Through the Storm
Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital) - Focus on Users to Solve Problems
Lisa Alderson (Genome Medical) - Dare to Stretch Your Boundaries
Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia) - A Burnout Manifesto
Joshua Hoffman (Zymergen) - Insights of an Accidental Entrepreneur
Chip Heath (Stanford University) - How Organizations Can Win Our Hearts
Tracy Chou (Project Include) - Debugging the Brogrammer Culture
Julayne Virgil (Girls Inc.) - The Courage to Take Positive Risks
David Baszucki (Roblox) - When the Platform is Your Product
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford University) - Elements of Effective Leadership
Josh McFarland (Greylock Partners) - Answering Common Startup Questions
M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford (Conservation International) - Scaling Sustainability
Eurie Kim (Forerunner Ventures) - How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You
Chris Anderson (3D Robotics) - The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
StartUp Podcast
Youpreneur: The Profitable Personal Brand Expert Business!
Lean Startup
Startup Grind
Jon Nastor’s Hack the Entrepreneur