I want to welcome you to this very, very special occasion. This is actually part of our normal class. Doesn’t this look like a normal class at Stanford? This is MS&E 472, the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture Series. And every single week we bring in really exciting speakers. Normally we're...
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And I would suggest to you there’s still a lot to do. But I would suggest to you that much of the promise of the post-industrial society has been realized. We in fact have changed the way people communicate, the way that they do business. The way that they entertain themselves, the way that busi...
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Last point: Scale yourself. First question is like what does that mean? Read my emails quickly, or reply all, scale yourself. But you think about having impact and you think about being a student and getting a job, or being an entrepreneur and raising funding, or getting the next job or changing...
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I think ideas are so easy to come up with. They’re the easiest thing. It's the implementation and it's a long road. Whenever you launch a company, it's a six- or seven-year journey if you're successful. I spent a lot of time early, and I'm willing to kill these ideas if they don't me...
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Data is apolitical. I think that-- I call this-- you know, there’s a very interesting feeling around Google. People will come in, like my friends would come in, in, you know, 2000, and they would say, "Wow, it's like Stanford with stock options." Because it has a very academic feel. In fact, I h...
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