Stanford eCorner | Building Organizations by Understanding Human Nature - Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) @ecorner | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Qasar Younis, CEO of Applied Intuition, encourages entrepreneurs who want to build strong organizations to read books from outside the world of technology to learn about human behavior. As an organization grows, he says, leaders have to build organizations that effectively deal with different types of people.
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Qasar Younis, CEO of Applied Intuition, encourages entrepreneurs who want to build strong organizations to read books from outside the world of technology to learn about human behavior. As an organization grows, he says, leaders have to build organizations that effectively deal with different types of people.
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![The Truth about Entrepreneurship [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p91HlF3NB7E/hqdefault.jpg "The Truth about Entrepreneurship [Entire Talk]
Frederic Kerrest is the executive vice chairman and co-founder of Okta. He is responsible for Oktas day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on the companys vision of enabling any organization to use any technology. Kerrest is the author of “Zero to IPO,” a WSJ Bestseller guidebook to building startups featuring insights from some of the world’s most successful and recognizable entrepreneurs. He’s also the co-host of the “Zero to IPO” podcast. In this presentation, Kerrest shares stories from his life to illustrate the challenges and excitement of being an entrepreneur and offers practical advice for students starting their careers.
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![Students Solving Hunger [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q4C29fHoRXM/hqdefault.jpg "Students Solving Hunger [Entire Talk]
Ben Collier and James Kanoff are two co-founders of The Farmlink Project, a student-led movement that has provided over 100 million pounds of nutritious food to communities facing hunger in the United States. They started the project out of their college dorm rooms at Brown and Stanford University during the pandemic by renting a U-Haul truck to connect farmers with surplus to their local food bank. In this presentation, Collier and Kanoff share Farmlink’s story and how they have led the rapidly growing nonprofit through successes and struggles.
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![Scaling Operations and People [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qGGDrCscZvQ/hqdefault.jpg "Scaling Operations and People [Entire Talk]
Claire Hughes Johnson is a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. From 2014 to 2021, Claire served as Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, responsible for scaling the company’s worldwide operations to meet the needs of its rapidly growing user base. During her tenure as COO, Stripe grew from less than 200 employees to more than 6,000. She is also the author of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building. In this presentation, Hughes Johnson shares her experiences as an operator and her advice for building effective systems and teams as a company scales.
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![Strategy for New Companies [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qxtU2z3ihZE/hqdefault.jpg "Strategy for New Companies [Entire Talk]
Kathleen Eisenhardt is the Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor in the Stanford School of Engineering. She is also a faculty member with STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Among the most widely cited entrepreneurship scholars in the world, Eisenhardt is the author of over 100 articles and several books, most recently (with Don Sull), “Simple Rules: How to Survive in a Complex World.” In this presentation, Eisenhardt shares strategies for founders of new companies in new and disrupted markets, providing case studies from her extensive research.
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![Good Friction [Explicit] - Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rYMlsG_hByA/hqdefault.jpg "Good Friction [Explicit] - Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford)
Bob Sutton, Stanford professor emeritus of management science and engineering and co-author of “The Friction Project,” observes that friction isn’t always bad. He gives the example of a military employee who successfully pushed back against using a non-FDA approved device invented by Elizabeth Holmes, who has since been discredited because the device didn’t work.
(EDS NOTE: THIS CLIP INCLUDES EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.)
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