I am Tina Seelig and I play two roles here today. First, I am the host normally, but today I’m also the speaker. So I'm going to give you a little bit of my background so you know actually who am I besides of the person who usually introduces our other guests. I am the Executive Direct...
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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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So let’s talk first about the enterprise productivity piece of this. This is really the cycle we're in. Now I'll get to this in a minute. Unfortunately, it's the cycle that we're at the maturation phase of which is why it doesn't feel like everything is going up right now. But this was really fu...
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I was working on these tablet computers and then I got this other second bug. I got the neuroscience thing going, and the second one was that I realized that in the future that everyone is going to have a personal computer that fits in their pocket that that would be the primary computing device...
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I mentioned that the consumer market, the next market is not as start-up friendly. It doesn’t mean nobody can succeed. It's just harder. And you really, really, really, need to have patience. This is not a two-year cycle. It's a five, seven year deal that you're jumping into. And I think our min...
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And what does risk mean? We’re all talking about risk these days. Risk means the vulnerability, the willingness to fail, the willingness to try something knowing that you might fail, and what goes along with this is learning from failure. Because nobody wants to fail. But if you're going to fail...
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I went to Intuit early on; again, in the notion of I was looking... I had two offers, one from Intuit and one from another company where I had a much more financially attractive offer - much better company, bigger company, looked like it was going to be around for a while - but made the decision...
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Mrs. Ochmonek thinks she’s gone crazy when she spots ALF in the backyard. She takes her story to a TV-show and is devastated when nobody believes her. ALF decides to make things right by talking to her again.
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I always tell people that what distinguishes Silicon Valley is not its successes but the way in which it deals with failure. We live in an industry, innovation industry, and we live in a place, Silicon Valley, that operates much like the home run averages for batters in the Major League...
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If you’re going to go out there and start a new business, I think a core fundamental proposition is the relentless focus on wowing the customer. Successful products are those which solve a consumer's problem and do it to the point where they're not just happy but they are wowed. That they are so...
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Because I came out in '97, but then become CEO until 2001, I became CEO in April of 2001 when we officially recognize that the recession had begun. The first thing my team did was decide what we were going to do with the massive unused deposits because we didn’t want to lend them the re...
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I decided to go to graduate school and said, "How am I going to do it? If I can do on the computer world, I’ll do it in the neuroscience world." I couldn't study traditional neuroscience so I got myself into a biophysics program. I became a PhD student in Biophysics in Berkeley, and I quit my jo...
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