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Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 14:14 Joe Liemandt My oldest daughter was in the school, um, and she's now at Stanford, and she was back, and she was beating some of the third and fourth graders, and she was looking at some of their scores, and she's like, they are getting the scores I got…
- ▶ 1:03:07 Joe Liemandt So my oldest daughter, you know, she's putting her Stanford application in.
- ▶ 1:27:10 Joe Liemandt We get into, you know, Stanford or Vanderbilt or NYU Shanghai or wherever you want to go because our academic scores are just through the roof.
- ▶ 1:30:41 Joe Liemandt I was, um, you know, uh, academically, uh, you know, people would definitely say, I can't believe Joe's doing education if you knew me in, in, at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 29:22 Vlad Tenev I think from a very beginning, we put our company next to Stanford university.
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
- ▶ 12:40 Shane Parrish So, Dad, do you remember that crazy idea I had at Stanford?
- ▶ 15:47 Shane Parrish It's basically his Stanford paper all over again, delivered with all the passion of a man who has nothing to lose.
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 1:20:55 Michael Ovitz Um, a friend of mine who I have unbelievable respect for, professor of AI at Stanford named Chris Ray, calls me up and said, 4 times in the scene
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 1:28:56 Lulu Cheng Meservey Like if I tell you Steve Jobs, like, okay, creative, visionary, Stanford speech, died early.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 1:08:20 Reed Hastings Um, but when I was a grad student at Stanford,
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 20:32 Garry Tan You know, my fellow Stanford grads, but I guess the weird thing to say is that, like, being around people who are really earnestly trying to build, ah, helps, ah, you know, 10 x more.
- ▶ 47:11 Garry Tan Yeah, I mean, um, I remember Jeff Bezos actually launched, um, AWS at a YC startup school at Stanford campus in, 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 4:26 Josh Wolfe Is going to become the next Afghanistan, that that region in the Sahel, all these coups and cascades of these coups of failed states where you have Russian mercenaries, violent extremists, Chinese CCP coming in with infrastructure and…
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:07 Shane Parrish After meeting Tony Heisch at Stanford over a pizza arbitrage scheme,
- ▶ 28:33 Alfred Lin Focusing on Stanford, and then Palo Alto, and they went to other suburbs, and it turned out that it, that was a very smart thing to do, because everybody was going after the cities, and one of the things that we talk about at Sequoia is,…
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 46:12 John Mackey They've gotten their, their MBA from Harvard or Wharton or Stanford.
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 21:42 Brian Halligan One of my favorite things on the interwebs is his keynote and his commencement speech at Stanford.
Dr. Gina Poe: The Science of Better Sleep
Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 13:21 Laurie Santos The, the, uh, author and former Stanford dean, Julia Lithgott-Hames, has his whole books about helicopter parenting, and she talks a lot about how today's teens are failure-deprived.
- ▶ 28:29 Marshall Goldsmith Safi, who's a small business guy, started up 10 or 12 companies, made tens of millions of dollars, has a PhD in physics from Stanford, has an IQ probably equal to mine and yours combined. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:32 Dr. Andrew Huberman Of course, being the study done at Stanford many years ago and repeated many times. 2 times in the scene
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
- ▶ 13:12 Venkatesh Rao So I used something called the belief, desire, intention model of Michael Brotman, who's a philosopher at Stanford, and it's been the basis of a lot of artificial intelligence research.
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 1:32 Shane Parrish Barbara is a professor of psychology at both Stanford and Columbia.
- ▶ 1:32:01 Barbara Tversky It's Jonathan Berger, and Jonathan's at Stanford, and whenever he has a new opera,
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 1:05:52 Andrew Wilkinson Um, this concept of, there's a, there's a really great, um, Stanford, um, uh, doctor named Dr.
Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership
- ▶ 29:59 Marshall Goldsmith Safi, who's a small business guy, started up 10 or 12 companies, made tens of millions of dollars, has a PhD in physics from Stanford, has an IQ probably equal to mine and yours combined. 2 times in the scene
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 30:09 Kunal Shah So you'll notice an interesting pattern that I think there's a study by some Stanford professor, which showed that, uh, almost an opposite connection or correlation to number of ethnicities and high trust of a society.
Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
- ▶ 1:07:36 Laurie Santos Um, the, the, uh, author and former Stanford dean, Julia Lithgott-Hames, has, has whole books about helicopter parenting, and she talks a lot about how
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 1:45 Shane Parrish Balaji founded a large molecular diagnostics company, taught bioinformatics at Stanford, won an MIT TR-X for his work in geometrics, and holds a PhD from Stanford.
- ▶ 27:28 Balaji Srinivasan What did the Stanford scientists say? 2 times in the scene
Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes
- ▶ 23:34 Dr. Andrew Huberman One of the absolute most powerful tools that has come into my life in the last decade and that my lab works on, and there are people in psychiatry at Stanford that are also working on, is a practice that I call non-sleep deep rest, which… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:32 Dr. Andrew Huberman Um, they was discovered by my colleague, Craig Heller at Stanford.
- ▶ 48:15 Dr. Andrew Huberman I'll just mention that it's done at Stanford recently by my colleague, Tony Weiss Corey, where they take the blood from exercised individuals and they infuse it into non-exercise individuals and all sorts of aspects of brain function…
- ▶ 1:03:45 Dr. Andrew Huberman And beautiful work has a two marshmallow task, of course, being the study done at Stanford many years ago and repeated many times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:51 Dr. Andrew Huberman There's a wonderful book, um, called Jaws, A Hidden Epidemic by Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich, both colleagues of mine at Stanford with a forward from Jared Diamond and also from Robert Sapolsky.
#131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep
- ▶ 51:55 Dr. Matt Walker This was a friend, Andy Huberman, um, at Stanford sort of taught me this time, the 11th rep, where you kind of, you know, you do your 10 reps, and then you immediately go to your phone, and you pick it up, and that's your 11th rep, and it…
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 37:09 Marc Andreessen Like, you know, the Google guys came straight out of Stanford, you know, Stanford, the PhD program, and so forth and so on.
#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 16:15 Noreena Hertz And there was a landmark study that was carried out by Stanford University about a year and a half ago, a real gold standard of a study where they had 3000, um, participants
- ▶ 1:24:07 Angela Duckworth Um, and this work was done with, um, collaborators, including James Gross at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:31 Jim Collins When I left Stanford to launch out on my own and in our last conversation, you know, I described launching out on my own and the fear of that and the commitment and so forth. 3 times in the scene
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 1:01:06 Walter Isaacson And so they're treating him for sickle cell at Stanford.
#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- ▶ 6:43 Noreena Hertz And there was a landmark study that was carried out by Stanford University about a year and a half ago, a real gold standard of a study where they had 3000, um, participants, 1500 in a control group, and the other 1500 were expressly…
#110 Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions
- ▶ 3:08 Jim Collins I was very fortunate to come across Bill ending up in his class the first time that he taught at Stanford and no one knew who he was.
- ▶ 15:20 Jim Collins When I left Stanford to launch out on my own, and in our last conversation, you know, I described launching out on my own, and the fear of that, and the commitment, and so forth, and, and, and when I sort of left 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:06 Jim Collins We were going to go for a walk on the Stanford campus and have lunch together and talk about whatever. 2 times in the scene
#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior
- ▶ 22:20 Angela Duckworth Um, and this work was done with, um, collaborators, including James Gross at Stanford.
- ▶ 25:50 Angela Duckworth Um, he is the psychologist at Stanford.
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 46:34 Matt Ridley Amount of defense spending at Stanford University, the freedom, the sunshine, you know, the number of immigrants, you know, there's all sorts of explanations.
#101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming
- ▶ 45:04 Jane McGonigal I had people running around Stanford in 2008 wearing masks, you know, because we had this, like, we were, we were simulating for six weeks a pandemic, and, you know, how would we have class, and how would we throw birthday parties?
#91 Russ Hudson: The Pursuit of Presence
- ▶ 12:14 Russ Hudson Certainly, uh, Don Richard Riso had a master's degree in psychology from, uh, Stanford and, uh, in social psychology, as I recall, and we had Dr. 2 times in the scene
#86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
- ▶ 1:11 Shane Parrish Today I'm talking with BJ Fogg, who founded the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University.
- ▶ 3:10 BJ Fogg The only class I ever repeated at Stanford, I always teach a new class, was on behavior design to help people connect to nature, but I didn't recognize how important that pattern was in my life 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 BJ Fogg You go into, I'll just talk about Stanford fundraising. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:46 BJ Fogg In some contexts, I'm a teacher, like at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:24 BJ Fogg There was a year at Stanford where the whole year of research, we called it Change Together.
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 32:31 Jason Calacanis At MIT or Harvard or Stanford, you can go on MIT's website right now and take all of their courses and then do all the project work and go to Google or any job and say, here's my coursework that I did on my own, on my own time, and I took…
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 2:36 Balaji Srinivasan So I'm a PhD, not an MD, a PhD in Electrical Engineering with an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford. 2 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 1:07:29 Mike Maples Jr. You know, David Sachs, uh, all these people in the PayPal mafia were people that he knew in his Stanford network and people that Max knew in his University of Illinois network.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 8:55 Neil Pasricha Sonia Lembemirski at Stanford University has posited a model that I really love
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:10 Shane Parrish We start with an understanding of how Steve Jobs helped him teach at Stanford, and go on to explore what makes companies and people successful using the lenses of level five leadership.
- ▶ 2:00 Shane Parrish An anecdote where Steve Jobs helped you prepare for class at Stanford University. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:24 Jim Collins And one of the things that Jerry is just, is just this range of quality of person, but he taught this course at Stanford that everybody ended up feeling they needed to take or that they really, I don't know if it's at any other 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:20 Jim Collins And I left Stanford to see if I could do this path as a kind of self-employed professor, kind of endow my own chair and grant myself tenure.
- ▶ 1:14:32 Jim Collins We were both undergraduates at Stanford where she was running, and, and I was, you know, studying math and doing a little bit of rock climbing and stuff, and anyways, he kept encouraging us.
- ▶ 2:09:39 Jim Collins Uh, for example, I came to the conclusion that my West Point cadets were, in a general, happier than my Stanford MBA students that I taught, and I think that we just, it was really interesting. 2 times in the scene
#64 Greg Walton: The Big Impact of Small Interventions
- ▶ 1:08 Shane Parrish Greg is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University.
- ▶ 36:57 Greg Walton So a fabulous line of work by, um, Kyla Hemovitz, who is a former graduate student here at Stanford, is now a postdoc at Penn, shows that kids tend to draw strong inferences from their parents' reactions to mistakes.
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 3:01 Dr. Atul Gawande Stanford.
#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 25:04 William MacAskill Um, it kind of baffles me that organizations, that, yeah, organizations like Harvard and Stanford are, um, requesting donations from their alumni while at the same time sitting on an endowment of thirty-five billion dollars that they could…
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 2:51 Patrick Collison I had gone to Stanford for the 2005 international LISP conference, um, and there, it was a fairly small conference, uh, and, uh, but it was very eye-opening for me, uh, and I remember, you know, walking around Stanford and thinking, man,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:54 Patrick Collison Or Nick Bloom at Stanford did this really interesting work, uh, has done a whole bunch of interesting work about management practices.
#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 46:50 Barbara Oakley So our older daughter goes to college, goes to, and now she's finishing her medical residency in Stanford, and
#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest
- ▶ 29:21 Dacher Keltner By a spectacular book on social Darwinism, uh, by, uh, I think it's a philosopher named Degler from Stanford.
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 19:21 Naval Ravikant And one of its depressing conclusions, I think this came out of Stanford, was that you can't break habits.
#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
- ▶ 14:13 Venkatesh Rao So I used something called the belief, desire, intention model of Michael Brotman, who's a philosopher at Stanford, and it's been the basis of a lot of artificial intelligence research.
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 26:43 Chris Dixon So maybe, you know, they have a PhD from Stanford and MIT and computer science.
- ▶ 45:23 Chris Dixon I would say the optimistic people and, you know, including some very well respected, you know, computer science professors at Stanford, for example, believe that in five to 10 years we'll have quantum computing in the mainstream.