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Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI, observes that a startup’s early hires set the tone and pace for the rest of the company’s trajectory. She encourages founders to maintain connections with employees as they scale, making sure people feel engaged and are onboarded into the culture.
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Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI, observes that a startup’s early hires set the tone and pace for the rest of the company’s trajectory. She encourages founders to maintain connections with employees as they scale, making sure people feel engaged and are onboarded into the culture.
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![Jake Miller (Fellow) - Designing Products Around Customer Experience [Entire Talk]
Jake Miller founded Fellow coming out of Stanford’s d.school Launchpad course, starting with the Duo Coffee Steeper. Fellow products are now in 50 countries. In this conversation with Launchpad instructor and Adjunct Professor Perry Klebahn, Miller shares how he built a roadmap for his company, a portfolio of products, and a distribution plan by focusing on customer experience.
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![The Near Future of AI [Entire Talk] - Andrew Ng (AI Fund)
Andrew Ng is the managing general partner at AI Fund, a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up; the founder of DeepLearning.AI; and an adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford University. In this presentation and conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Ng talks about upcoming opportunities for entrepreneurs exploring AI technology and addresses questions of responsibility and risk.
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