Annie Hockey is the co-CEO of Column, a nationally chartered bank that publicly launched in 2022 for developers who are building modern financial products and services. Hockey leads, among other functions, the regulatory, legal, accounting, and human resources aspects of Column. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Emily Ma, Hockey discusses how she and her co-founder/co-CEO have navigated the complex regulations of the banking industry while building an innovative fintech company.

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Annie Hockey (Column) - Reimagining Fintech

Frederic Kerrest is the executive vice chairman and co-founder of Okta. He is responsible for Okta's day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on the company's 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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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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Ben Collier and James Kanoff (The Farmlink Project) - Students Solving Hunger

Josh Wolfe co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Wolfe is a director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead Lux Capital’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience, and Hadrian. He is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta, which makes cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications. In this presentation, Wolfe shares the principles that guide his entrepreneurship and investments, giving examples from companies he has founded and funded.

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Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge

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Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content. Coactive AI leverages artificial intelligence to make it easy for enterprise companies to search, filter, and analyze large amounts of image and video data by bringing structure to unstructured data.  In this presentation, Coleman shares how his life story has shaped the type of entrepreneur he aims to be. He gives advice for fellow founders who want to build positive company cultures and teams.

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Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’

Garry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator, which funds hundreds of companies per year through a web-based application. Tan is also the co-founder, board partner and advisor of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund, and co-founded Posterous, a blog platform acquired by Twitter. In this presentation, Tan shares advice and insights for aspiring entrepreneurs and startup founders that challenges prevailing wisdom.

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Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders

Daniela Amodei is president and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Amodei manages the senior leadership team, leveraging her people and management experience to further the company’s goal of building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Emily Ma, Amodei talks about how Anthropic’s team of co-founders have built values and ethical guardrails into their AI tools from day one, and how this can inform other AI companies.

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Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI

Shiza Shahid is the co-founder and co-CEO of Our Place, a mission-driven startup reimagining kitchenware for the modern, multiethnic, global kitchen. Prior to Our Place, Shahid also co-founded the Malala Fund with Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. She led the organization as founding CEO, advocating for the rights of all girls to attend school. Shahid also launched NOW Ventures, an angel fund to invest in mission-driven startups. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Shahid shares how her life and career have shaped her view of entrepreneurship and offers advice for infusing mission and meaning into products and brands.

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Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path

David Allemann co-leads the Swiss sports company On, one of the fastest-growing global sports brands. He puts a special focus on product, design, marketing, and the direct-to-consumer business of On. Previously, Allemann worked at the intersection of business and creativity at McKinsey & Company, as managing director of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam, and as CMO of design brand Vitra. In this presentation, Allemann shares how he and his co-founders built their shoe company on a spirit of exploration, innovation, and positivity, and what aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from their experience.

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David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology

Step inside "The Perception Lens" series, a special feature of the Perception Podcast where co-founders Jeremy Lasky and Danny Gonzalez dive deep into the expansive realms of design, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation. In this series, we discuss how visionary concepts come to life and share insights into the processes that shape the future of design. Each episode is dedicated to exploring the dynamic interplay between business and creativity through the lens of our cutting-edge design studio. Take an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Perception as we pull back the curtain on the ideas and experiences driving our unique Science Fiction Thinking approach.

To kick off our debut episode, we share the story of how Perception has evolved and how we navigated some major markers throughout the journey of growing our business into what it is today.

The Perception Lens Series - Milestones And Turning Points PART 1 (#47)

Step inside "The Perception Lens" series, a special feature of the Perception Podcast where co-founders Jeremy Lasky and Danny Gonzalez dive deep into the expansive realms of design, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation. In this series, we discuss how visionary concepts come to life and share insights into the processes that shape the future of design. Each episode is dedicated to exploring the dynamic interplay between business and creativity through the lens of our cutting-edge design studio. Take an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Perception as we pull back the curtain on the ideas and experiences driving our unique Science Fiction Thinking approach.

This week, we continue our journey through the evolution of Perception, delving into how we came to work on our first feature film for Marvel Studios: Iron Man 2.

The Perception Lens Series - Milestones And Turning Points PART 2 (#48)

You’re listening to our very first BITESIZE segment, a small yet powerful dose of key takeaways and highlights pulled from every full-length episode of The Perception Lens series. If you couldn’t catch our last episodes, Milestones and Turning Points Part 1 and 2, then tune into this week’s BITESIZE, where we recount our journey with Marvel Studios and the beginnings of our longstanding collaboration.

BITESIZE | The Start Of Our Relationship With Marvel Studios (#49)

Welcome back everybody, you’re listening to our BITESIZE segment, a small yet powerful dose of key takeaways and notable moments from each episode of The Perception Lens Series. This week, we pieced together some special highlights from our latest full-length episodes, Milestones and Turning Points Part 1 and 2.

BITESIZE | Highlights From Milestones And Turning Points Part 1 And 2 #50

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