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James Kanoff, co-founder and board director of the Farmlink Project, explains how the nonprofit’s founders established Farmlink’s mission, values, and community as the project grew. Co-founder and CEO Ben Collier tells a story illustrating how early Farmlink fellows were dedicated to their mission and each other.
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James Kanoff, co-founder and board director of the Farmlink Project, explains how the nonprofit’s founders established Farmlink’s mission, values, and community as the project grew. Co-founder and CEO Ben Collier tells a story illustrating how early Farmlink fellows were dedicated to their mission and each other.
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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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![What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tXfCQHcPFcM/hqdefault.jpg "What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [Entire Talk]
Clara Shih is CEO of Salesforce AI, the world’s most trusted enterprise AI for customer relationship management. A digital pioneer, Shih has been named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, TIME’s Most Influential People in AI, and the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. She is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and serves as executive chair of Hearsay Systems, a privately held digital software firm she founded in 2009. In this presentation, Shih shares unconventional advice for finding professional and personal success as an entrepreneur.
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![From Conviction to Company [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t_R_kP8xIew/hqdefault.jpg "From Conviction to Company [Entire Talk]
Michelle Lee is the founder and CEO of Medra, which combines recent advances in robotics and computer vision to build lab automation technology. She has previously worked at NVIDIA, SpaceX, and McKinsey. Prior to founding Medra, Lee was an assistant professor in computer science and electrical computer engineering at New York University. In this presentation and conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Lee explains why she decided to start her deep tech company and uses her experiences to give advice to aspiring founders.
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