Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Jessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Kiva, the first microfinance crowdfunding platform, with $2 billion in loans since 2005. She is currently a founder and general partner at Untapped Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm championing unexpected founders. In this presentation, Jackley shares her journey to becoming a mission-focused entrepreneur and offers insights to inspire others to ask, “What if things were different?” —----------------------------------- Stanford eCorner content is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At STVP, we empower aspiring entrepreneurs to become global citizens who create and scale responsible innovations. CONNECT WITH US Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECorner  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanfordtechnologyventuresprogram/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanfordTechnologyVenturesProgram/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ecorner  LEARN MORE eCorner Website: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/ STVP Website: https://stvp.stanford.edu/ Support our mission of providing students and educators around the world with free access to Stanford University’s network of entrepreneurial thought leaders: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/give.

Sarah Lamaison is the co-founder and CEO of Dioxycle, which is pioneering sustainable chemistry by building breakthrough technologies that convert industrial carbon emissions into everyday chemicals with unprecedented energy and cost efficiency. In this presentation, Lamaison explains how her company fits into the future of carbon-capture technology, then shares advice for tech founders — especially in the climate tech industry —who want to build successful companies. —----------------------------------- Stanford eCorner content is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At STVP, we empower aspiring entrepreneurs to become global citizens who create and scale responsible innovations. CONNECT WITH US Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECorner  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanfordtechnologyventuresprogram/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanfordTechnologyVenturesProgram/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ecorner  LEARN MORE eCorner Website: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/ STVP Website: https://stvp.stanford.edu/ Support our mission of providing students and educators around the world with free access to Stanford University’s network of entrepreneurial thought leaders: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/give.

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. —----------------------------------- Stanford eCorner content is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At STVP, we empower aspiring entrepreneurs to become global citizens who create and scale responsible innovations. CONNECT WITH US Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECorner  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanfordtechnologyventuresprogram/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanfordTechnologyVenturesProgram/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ecorner  LEARN MORE eCorner Website: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/ STVP Website: https://stvp.stanford.edu/ Support our mission of providing students and educators around the world with free access to Stanford University’s network of entrepreneurial thought leaders: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/give.