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NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
- ▶ 58:59 Jensen Huang And during the time when the kids were still young, I was, I was finishing my master's at Stanford, and so I was busy on multiple levels, and
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- ▶ 8:59 Guy Raz So I guess after a couple years there, um, you decide to come back to the U.S., and you went and did a degree at Stanford.
- ▶ 12:25 Guy Raz I mean, I mean, clearly you'd made connections at, at, you know, previous startups and, and maybe, you know, in your previous job and, and at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 3:20 Guy Raz And when Nirav got to Stanford, he thought he might become a doctor as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Nirav Tolia And it was started by a couple of Stanford grad students in a trailer on campus.
- ▶ 17:21 Guy Raz Yeah, I think one of the things that they, that they said was that you had, you had claimed you had a degree from Stanford, which you didn't, because you hadn't graduated, which I don't think is a big deal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:35 Nirav Tolia Someone let me into Stanford.
Snap: Evan Spiegel
- ▶ 1:41 Guy Raz Evan Spiegel and two friends from Stanford built a social media app in 2011.
- ▶ 4:32 Guy Raz Um, so I know you went to Stanford, and I mean, this is like, 2008. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Guy Raz So while you were at Stanford, you had, um, you had a friend.
- ▶ 9:49 Guy Raz You are, I think, a junior at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 Guy Raz But, I mean, you were working on Peekaboo with two of your classmates at Stanford.
- ▶ 19:10 Guy Raz You are a senior, I think, at Stanford, and you're on campus, so I imagine 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Guy Raz So it's 2012, and Evan has just dropped out of Stanford to focus on his photo messaging app, Snapchat.
- ▶ 40:59 Evan Spiegel It wasn't clear at the time what the business model was going to be, and one of the things I learned from Stanford and being up in the Bay Area, which was different than how I learned about business growing up, was the real focus on…
- ▶ 1:04:11 Guy Raz It was easy for him, because he was smart, he went to Stanford, and he got the money.
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 5:05 William Wang So my GPA wasn't good enough for UCLA, wasn't good enough for Stanford, Berkeley, but somehow I did, I got into USC, and, uh, my mom, she highly recommended to become an engineer because, you know, the high-paid jobs are engineers, and,…
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
- ▶ 28:09 Kat Hantas And she was a Stanford engineer, uh, that was a friend of mine as a mom friend, but she had worked in food, uh, innovation.
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 5:22 Patricia Ziegler My boyfriend was drafted, was, had, was, was called up, and he had heard that there was a psychiatrist up in Stanford who was helping guys get out of the draft.
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 5:56 Bayard Winthrop But at the same time, I was surrounded by a bunch of folks who had gone to Harvard and Wharton and Michigan and Stanford who were econ majors and were way smarter than me, um, were outperforming me.
- ▶ 9:51 Bayard Winthrop One guy out of Stanford's product design program and a, and another guy who had actually conceived of the idea of,
- ▶ 13:30 Bayard Winthrop I, I had met another guy that had gone through the Stanford product design program, and his name was Steen Strand, and, and I had met him, um, when I was at Atlas. 2 times in the scene
Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
- ▶ 7:54 Guy Raz Meantime, Pete, you were, you went to Stanford, also studying engineering. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:48 Guy Raz Um, all right, so you, so, so the first time that you try rowing, you're, you're not that into it, but I guess while you're at Stanford, your brother Dick also comes out to California to be a coach for Stanford's rowing team, and, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Guy Raz Both of you had these, like, you know, Stanford master's degrees in engineering, and that your dad had been an engineer his whole career, and that this is still a time where people were, like, doing these traditional, you know, kind of…
- ▶ 23:27 Guy Raz And you had the legitimacy because you were a coach at Stanford, and you probably had the connections, and both of you guys had been in the rowing community, so you knew some of these coaches. 2 times in the scene
Weee!: Larry Liu
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
- ▶ 3:16 Guy Raz Um, I know you ended up at Stanford, um, and you studied mechanical engineering, and while you were there, you were part of, um, a solar car project.
- ▶ 7:34 Guy Raz You went back to Stanford, but did you leave with the intention of like, okay, there's something to this battery thing, and I want to pursue this?
Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc.
- ▶ 15:21 Ramya Swaminathan Insight that formed the foundation of what Malta's working on today in terms of our technology was actually the brainchild of a professor at Stanford.
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- ▶ 6:45 Guy Raz Jeff, you, you went to Wharton, and Andy, you went to Stanford.
- ▶ 11:26 Andy Katz-Mayfield He came out and visited at Stanford, um, when they did, uh, this Warby Parker, you know, trunk show, and, um, I did think that what Warby was doing was interesting and unique, so I kind of had that in the back of my mind, that the idea of…
- ▶ 17:42 Andy Katz-Mayfield Like the Stanford library database that I still had access to as a business school student.
HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton
Orangetheory Fitness: Ellen Latham
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 16:53 Blake Scholl And I took both of those things to a professor at Stanford who had done a bunch of supersonics research.
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
HOORAE: Issa Rae
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
- ▶ 9:58 RJ Scaringe I was very close, and in fact, signed onto a position at Stanford, but ultimately switched a few days into that to MIT, and the reason was I was selecting the grad school based upon what I thought would best position me for, for starting… 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
- ▶ 0:53 Guy Raz Shiza Shahid grew up in Pakistan and was a student at Stanford when she first heard about Malala Yousafzai.
- ▶ 7:15 Guy Raz You eventually managed to get to Stanford University. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:51 Guy Raz You are at Stanford.
- ▶ 15:27 Guy Raz All right, so you, you go back to Stanford, graduate, and go work for McKinsey.
- ▶ 21:38 Shiza Shahid Be like, no, I'd still have a Stanford degree and, you know, a year and some at McKinsey, and I'd have built this thing that would have connected me to all these people.
- ▶ 30:31 Shiza Shahid Well, I would say, in the for-profit world, it was challenging, because everyone wanted to get lunch, because they thought the story was interesting, and people like to put you in a box, and so, yes, I'd gone to Stanford, and yes, I'd…
Roblox: David Baszucki
- ▶ 6:02 Guy Raz So it's not, not surprising that you, you decided to study computer science when you went to Stanford in the early eighties. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:28 Guy Raz I think of people in their twenties and thirties, not, and, and, I, I, I'm trying to be careful to say this, because there's nothing wrong with being in your forties, but, but were any, any of your friends or colleagues or people you knew,…
- ▶ 59:02 Guy Raz You were into programming really early, and, and went to Stanford, and, and were in the Silicon Valley area, sort of, before the, the, kind of, the internet explosion.
HIBT Lab! IDEO: David Kelley
- ▶ 0:45 Guy Raz David Kelly isn't just the founder of IDEO, but also the founder of the design school at Stanford.
- ▶ 3:06 Guy Raz But there was a decision you made in the late seventies to go to Stanford, to go back to school and to study product design, which was really, I guess it was a turning point for you. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 David Kelley There was a guy in the Stanford program before me who ended up at Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:54 Guy Raz He's also the founder of Stanford's Design School. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:36 David Kelley Oh, I've always think it'll be different every, we're always evolving, but, you know, I spent my life hanging around twenty-year-olds, young people, uh, at Stanford, and, you know, they are different.
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 41:31 Donnel Baird And with this archetype of a founder who, from what we're being told, it's like a nineteen-year-old Caucasian male who drops out of Stanford or Harvard, you know, like Steve Jobs, like Zuckerberg, like Bill Gates, um,
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 15:04 Guy Raz And, and, and so, you know, it was, it wasn't MIT, it wasn't Stanford, but it was, uh, not far behind in terms of, like, the
- ▶ 25:46 Guy Raz And I guess in, in August of 98, a fateful and certainly fortunate encounter, um, we went to a lecture at Stanford by Peter Thiel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:00 Guy Raz Um, but even as a student at Stanford, he was, um, he was a bit of a lightning rod.
- ▶ 44:20 Max Levchin And, uh, we basically shifted kind of back to the brainstorm mode where Scott Bannister and Luke and Peter and Reid Hoffman, who was Peter's friend from Stanford and a handful of others would just stay up really late at night and…
- ▶ 49:28 Max Levchin It was on Stanford campus of all places, kind of outdoors around this picnic table and
HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
Discord: Jason Citron
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 3:41 Guy Raz And Elizabeth in Palo Alto, where her dad taught electrical engineering at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:41 Otis Chandler I was a fifth-generation Stanford graduate.
- ▶ 11:44 Guy Raz Alright, so you, you go on to Stanford, and, and your objective, like your, when, when you got there, were you thinking, I'm gonna become an engineer after this is done? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:44 Guy Raz I want to, um, come back to you, Elizabeth, because when we left off, you were at Stanford, and thinking about pre-med, and then went to English, and, but, but after you graduated, I read that you kind of went through the, the post-college…
- ▶ 17:27 Guy Raz You've been at Stanford together, but you didn't know each other. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:04 Otis Chandler And then when I got to Stanford, I kind of had to stop, because you can't go to Stanford and read for pleasure. 2 times in the scene
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- ▶ 13:42 Will Marshall Students who are at Stanford, people that worked at Apple, people that worked at Google, all these places, and that created a fervor of intellectual dizziness that was always fun for us.
Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 3:38 Guy Raz In the mid-nineteen-eighties, he moved out west to attend Stanford, and it was his first taste of life on the west coast.
- ▶ 4:53 Guy Raz I, I guess that after you graduated from Stanford, you got a job in consulting, and, and from what I understand, you, not too long after that, you decided that it wasn't for you, and you were 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:31 Rich Barton And so in order to stay out of my wife's hair, I took an office with an ex Expedia, early Microsoft Stanford friend of mine, Lloyd Frank.
- ▶ 26:22 Rich Barton We did a deal with a guy we went to Stanford with, Gordon Stevenson, who was a regional broker here in Seattle, and we said, Gordo, let us try to sell one of your houses.
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
- ▶ 2:16 Guy Raz But in the early eighties, this was a pretty big challenge, even at Stanford University. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:03 Sandy Lerner Well, I, at this point I still thought I wanted to be an academic, um, and so I picked up my little self and applied to Stanford, and because the political science department there needed programmers, because of course they were getting to…
- ▶ 8:29 Guy Raz Now, 1975, 76, Stanford, like, now it's a legendary time, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:23 Sandy Lerner I met Len the first time when he was interviewing Stanford, and I mean that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 Guy Raz So I'm trying to, trying to, um, get a sense of what some of the problems you were dealing with in, at Stanford in the early eighties. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:41 Guy Raz Um, you are part of this team that, that creates a network that Stanford then adopts as its, as its protocol, and, and at that point, these 5000 computers are able to talk to each other. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 Guy Raz Okay, so Sandy, based on whatever, this is, this is really where the story gets a little complicated here, so I'm gonna try and abbreviate things, and just say that during that period, you, I think you, you leave Stanford, and then Len… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:21 Sandy Lerner That came out of Stanford at the end of the seventies.
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
- ▶ 1:09 Guy Raz Both attended Stanford for undergrad and grad school. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41 Paul Davison You know, I was just really interested in getting involved in the startup world, and so I liked the idea of going back to Stanford and 4 times in the scene
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