Draper Fisher Jurvetson Stanford Technology Ventures Program Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students

Spring 2008-09 Speaker Lineup

April 8
Jensen Huang ~ Co-Founder, NVidia
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become the world leader in visual computing technologies and one of the semiconductor industry's largest fabless companies.
April 15
Mari Baker ~ CEO, Playfirst, formerly Navigenics
Mari Baker is currently the CEO of PlayFirst, Inc., an award-winning entertainment company that makes games appealing to everyone. Ms. Baker was most recently CEO of Navigenics, a healthcare company that combines advances in genomics and technology to provide personalized medicine. In 2006, she was an executive-in-residence at KPCB. Prior to that, she was president of BabyCenter. Under her leadership, BabyCenter became the world's leading website for new and expectant parents, winning numerous online health awards and expanding significantly offline and internationally.
April 22
Sheryl Sandberg ~ COO, Facebook
Sheryl Sandberg graduated in 1991 from Harvard College, and worked under Lawrence Summers at the World Bank. She later earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995 and worked at McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant. Sandberg then served as chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. Turning down several investment bank offers, she joined Google in 2000. She was included in Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women of 2007 and, at the age of 38, had the distinction of being the youngest on the list. In March 2008 she left Google Inc. to become Facebook's COO.
April 29
Jennifer Fonstad & Steve Perricone, BioFuelBox
Jennifer Scott Fonstad is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Considered one of the most senior women in venture today, Ms. Fonstad invests broadly in early stage companies, most recently taking an early leadership role in clean energy. Additionally, she has been working to change our country’s healthcare system through entrepreneurship.

Steve Perricone is President and CEO (Co-Founder) of BioFuelBox Corporation. Steve has over 20 years experience in the technology industry, with over half of that in start-up environments. Most recently Mr. Perricone was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for SonicWALL (NASDAQ: SNWL). He joined SonicWALL when it had less than 20 employees and was instrumental in the growth of the company to over 450 employees worldwide.
May 6
Steve Ballmer ~ CEO, Microsoft
Steven Anthony Ballmer needs no introduction. He has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 24th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates. As a visionary and leader, Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft to the top of the computer software world.
May 13
Jeff Hawkins ~ Founder, Numenta
Prior founder of Palm and Handspring
Jeff Hawkins is well known as co-founder of two companies, Palm and Handspring, and as the architect of many computing products such as the PalmPilot and Treo smartphone. Jeff also has a deep interest in neuroscience, which led him to create the non-profit Redwood Neuroscience Institute (RNI), a scientific institute focused on understanding how the human neocortex processes information. While at RNI, Hawkins developed a theory of neocortex which appeared in his 2004 book, On Intelligence. With the team of Dileep George and Donna Dubinsky, Hawkins founded Numenta in 2005 to develop a technology platform derived from his theory.
May 20
Steve Westly ~ Former CA Controller
Steve P. Westly is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at The Westly Group. Prior to founding the firm, he served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California. Throughout his career, Mr. Westly has developed expertise in fiscal management. He brought determination and commitment to the State Controller’s Office at a time when California was facing a severe fiscal crisis. In the private sector, Mr. Westly guided eBay through a period of rapid growth, serving as a Senior Vice President of Marketing, Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, and International Operations. Currently, Westly is California Campaign Co-chair for Obama for America and is a member of the campaign's finance committee.
May 27
Tina Seelig ~ Executive Director, STVP & Author,
What I Wish I knew When I Was 20
Tina Seelig, Ph.D. is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program where she is responsible for strategic planning, operations, and outreach efforts of STVP. In addition, Tina is the Director of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network and the co-Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program. Tina's latest book, What I wish I knew when I was 20, provides insights on life, leadership, and the little things that make a big difference in an entrepreneurial setting.

Winter 2008-09 Speaker Lineup

January 14
Dinner afterwards
Hugh Martin
Chairman and CEO - Pacific Biosciences
January 21
Dinner afterwards
Soujanya Bhumkar, Josh Schwarzapel, Austin Shoemaker
Founders, Cooliris
January 28
Dinner afterwards
Teresa Briggs
Managing Partner - Deloitte, Silicon Valley
February 4
Spencer Ante
Computer Department - Business Week
Author - Creative Capital
February 11
Tom Siebel
Chairman - First Virtual Group
Founder - Siebel Systems
February 18
John Hennessy
President - Stanford University
Launch of Stanford University Entrepreneurship Week!
February 25
Tim Draper & Michael Moe ~ Discussion moderated by Tony Perkins
Conclusion of Stanford University Entrepneurship Week
March 4
Elizabeth Holmes
Founder and CEO - Theranos Inc.

Fall 2008-09 Speaker Lineup

October 1
Mixer and Dinner afterwards
Steve Blank ~ Stanford Professor, Serial Entrepreneur
Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 28 years of experience in high technology companies. He has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978. They include E.piphany, two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company, a supercomputer firm, a computer peripheral supplier, a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company.
October 8
Mixer afterwards
Erik Straser ~ Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures
With a decade of experience in venture capital, Erik has been a catalyst for Cleantech in Silicon Valley and abroad. He leads MDV's Cleantech investment team and applies his expertise in areas of solar, biofuels, energy storage, industrial biotech and clean coal.
October 15
William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' Time magazine recognized him in 1999 as a 'Hero for the Planet', stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that-in demonstrable and practical ways-is changing the design of the world."
October 22
Vinod Khosla ~ Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures
Vinod Khosla was the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, Centrata, eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, QWEST Communications, Spatial Photonics, Xsigo and Zettacore. Furthermore, Vinod became a General Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986, and more recently founded Khosla Ventures.
October 29
Mixer and Dinner afterwards
Judy Estrin ~ CEO of Packet Design
Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC. She is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, published in September, 2008. Prior to co-founding Packet Design, in May 2000, Estrin was the CTO for Cisco Systems. Beginning in 1981 Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software.
November 5
Anna Patterson ~ Co-founder of the Cuil Search Engine
Anna Patterson is the President and Co-founder of Cuil. Previous to this position, she was the architect of Google's large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006. During her time with Google, Anna was the technical lead of one of the two Web ranking groups at Google, in charge of GoogleBase, and managed for the core piece of Google’s ad-matching technology. She joined Google in 2004 after designing, writing and selling Recall.
November 12
Tom is the General Manager of IDEO, the widely admired design and development firm that brought us the Apple mouse, the Palm V and hundreds of other cutting edge products and services. Fast Company listed IDEO as number five in its 2008 list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies.
November 19
Guy Kawasaki ~ Garage Technology Ventures
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way.

Spring 2007-08 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerAfterMedia
Wed
4/09
Jeff Housenbold

CEO, Shutterfly
Mixer Handout,
Video
Wed
4/16
David Rothkopf

Author, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making
Mixer Handout,
Video
Wed
4/23
George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures
None Handout,
Video
Peter Diamandis, M.D.

Chairman and CEO, XPrize
Wed
4/30
Anand Chandrasekaran

Founder, Aeroprise Inc. / Producer, Tapestries of Hope
Dinner Handout,
Video
Michealene C. Risley

President, Freshwater Spigot / Writer & Director, Tapestries of Hope
Wed
5/07
Sue Decker

President, Yahoo
None Handout,
Video
Wed
5/14
Larry Brilliant

Executive Director, Google.org
Mixer,
Dinner
Handout,
Video
Wed
5/21
John Melo

CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies
None Handout,
Video
Wed
5/28
Beth Seidenberg, M.D.

Partner, KPCB
Dinner Handout,
Video

Winter 2007-08 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerAfterMedia
Wed
1/16
Mitch Kapor

Founder, Foxmarks
Founder, Lotus
Mixer and Dinner
Wed
1/23
Ron Conway

Founder, Angel Investors LP
Dinner
Mike Maples

Founder, Maples Investments
Wed
1/30
Jesse Fink

Co-Founder, MissionPoint Capital Partners, (Co-Founder,Priceline)
Mixer and Dinner
Steve Blank

Stanford Professor and Serial Entrepreneur
Wed
2/6
Christine Benninger

President, Humane Society Silicon Valley
Dinner Slides (PPT)
Wed
2/13
Brett Crosby

Group PMM, Google Analytics
Dinner
Wed
2/20
Mir Imran

Chairman of the Board, InCube Labs
Dinner
Launch of Stanford Entrepreneurship Week!
Wed
2/27
Debra Dunn

Former HP Senior Vice President of Coprorate Affairs
Mixer
Jay Cohen Gilbert
Bart Houlahan
Andrew Kassoy


Founders , B Corporation
Please note this week's change in location to Hewlett 200
Wed
3/5
Ken Wilcox

CEO, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group
Mixer and Dinner

Fall 2007-08 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerPresentationAfterMedia
Wed
10/3
Donna Novitsky

CEO, BigTent, and former VC, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Mixer Handout
Wed
10/10
Martin Eberhard

Co-Founder and President of Technology, Tesla
Mixer Handout
Please note this week's change in location to Hewlett 200
Launch of Stanford Entrepreneurship Network.
Wed
10/17
Dominic Orr

President and CEO, Aruba Networks
Mixer Handout
Wed
10/24
Chip Heath

Stanford Professor and Author, Made to Stick
Mixer Handout
Please note this week's change in location to Arrillaga Alumni Center, McCaw Hall
Stanford REE Conference.
Wed
10/31
Stan Christensen

Co-Founder, Arbor Advisors
Dinner Handout
Wed
11/7
Larry Bawden

Co-Founder and President/CEO, Jadoo Power
Dinner. Handout
Wed
11/14
Armen Berjikly

Founder and CEO, Experience Project
Mixer Handout
Wed
11/28
Ping Li

Partner, Accel
Mixer Handout
Ashwin Navin

Co-Founder and President, BitTorrent

Spring 2006-07 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerPresentationAfterMedia
Wed
4/11
William Perry

U.S. Secretary of Defense (1994-1997) Stanford University
It's Your Ship
Mixer Wikipedia
Podcast
Wed
4/18
Mark Jung

Founder, IGN
The Entrepreneurial Life Cycle Dinner Podcast
Wed
4/25
Shai Agassi

Former President, Product and Technology Group, SAP AG
Not Just a Pipe Dream: Converting Israel to an All-electric Fleet of Vehicles Mixer Wikipedia
Blog
Podcast
Co-sponsored by Energy Crossroads and Woods Institute for the Environment
Please note this week's change in location to Terman Auditorium
Wed
5/2
Carly Fiorina

CEO, Hewlett-Packard (1999-2005) and Author, Tough Choices
Remarks by Carly Fiorina Mixer
Book-signing
Wikipedia
Book
Podcast
Co-sponsored by Stanford Women in Business
Please note this week's change in location to Terman Auditorium
Wed
5/9
Jackie Speier

Author & CA State Senator (1998-2006), CA Senate
Dinner Wikipedia
Book Podcast
Deborah Stephens

Author, Co-Founder, Center For Innovative Leadership
Wed
5/16
Andrew Frame

CEO, Ooma
Dinner Podcast
Warren Packard

Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Wed
5/23
Mitchell Baker

CEO, Mozilla Corporation
Entrepreneurship and Mozilla Dinner Wikipedia
Wed
5/30
Bob Sutton

Author & Professor, Stanford University
The No Asshole Rule Mixer Blog
Book
Article

Winter 2006-07 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerCompanyTitleAfterwardsMaterials
Jan. 17 Janice Roberts Mayfield Fund Managing Director Mixer Handout Podcast
Jan. 24 Tien Tzuo Salesforce.com Chief Strategy Officer Dinner Handout Podcast
Jan. 31 Ray Lane KPCB Partner Mixer Handout Podcast
Ron Bloom Podshow Founder
Feb. 7 Reid Hoffman LinkedIn Founder Mixer Handout Podcast
Feb. 14 Gregory Waldorf eHarmony CEO Mixer Handout Podcast
Feb. 21 Steve Burrill Burrill & Co Founder Mixer Handout Podcast
Feb. 28 Entrepreneurship Week Panel Mixer Handout Podcast
KR Sridhar Bloom Energy CEO
Jeff Koseff Stanford University Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kavita Ramdas Global Fund for Women CEO
Chip Blacker Stanford University Director, Institute for International Studies
Brook Byers KPCB General Partner
Paul Yock Stanford University Director of Biodesign Program
Mar. 7 Shaukat Shamim Rhythm NewMedia SVP, Business Development Mixer Handout

Fall 2006-07 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerCompanyTitleAfterwardsMaterials
Oct. 4 Kathy Eisenhardt Stanford University Professor of Management Science & Engineering Mixer Handout Podcast Slides
Oct. 11 Greg Brandeau Pixar Senior Vice President of Technology Dinner Handout
Oct. 18 Rick Wallace KLA-Tencor CEO Dinner Handout Podcast
Oct. 25 Jim Breyer Accel Partners Managing Partner Mixer Handout
Podcast
Chris Larsen Prosper Marketplace, Inc. CEO
Nov. 1 Joseph McCracken Genentech Vice President of Business Development Mixer Handout
Podcast
Nov. 8 Nick Earl Electronic Arts Vice President & General Manager Dinner Handout Podcast
Nov. 15 Greg Ballard Glu-Mobile CEO & President Mixer Handout Podcast
Nov. 29 Scott Kriens Juniper Networks Chairman & CEO Mixer Handout
Podcast

Spring 2005-06 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerCompanyTitleAfterwardsMaterials
4/12 Tina Seelig Stanford University Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program Mixer Video
Podcast
Handout
4/19 Katie Rodan Proactiv Solution Co-Founder Dinner Video
Podcast
Handout
4/26 Stephanie Keller-Bottom Nokia Innovent Director Mixer Video
Podcast
Handout
5/3 Gil Penchina eBay VP of Business Development Dinner Video
Podcast
Handout
5/10 Pam Marrone Agraquest Founder Dinner Video
Podcast
Handout
5/17 Marissa Mayer Google Vice President, Search Products & User Experience Mixer Video
Podcast
Handout
5/24 Tony Fadell Apple Executive Vice President, iPod Division Mixer [Not recorded]
Handout
5/31 Ryan Phelan DNA Direct Founder and CEO Dinner Video
Podcast
Handout

Winter 2005-06 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerCompanyTitleAfterwardsMaterials
1/18 Tom Byers Stanford University Professor, Deputy Chair, Management Science and Engineering Mixer Handout
1/25 Jeff Beaver Bobby Beaver Zazzle Co-founder, VP Products
Co-founder, VP Technology
Dinner Handout
2/1 Janice Fraser Adaptive Path CEO Dinner Handout
2/8 Kim Popovits Genomic Health President and COO Dinner Handout
2/15 Chong-Moon Lee AmBex Venture Group Founder and Chairman Mixer Handout
2/22 Michael Goldberg Mohr Davidow Ventures General Partner Mixer Handout
3/1 Carol Bartz Autodesk Executive Chairman of the Board Mixer Handout
3/8 John Roos Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati CEO Dinner Handout

Fall 2005-06 Speaker Lineup

DateSpeakerCompanyTitleAfterwardsMaterials
Oct 5 Geoff Davis Unitus President, CEO Mixer Handout
Oct 12 Evan Williams Odeo Founder, President Dinner Handout
Oct 19 Joe Liemandt Trilogy Founder, President, CEO Dinner Handout
Oct 26 Jim Breyer
Mark Zuckerberg
Accel
theFacebook
Managing Partner
Founder
Mixer Handout
Nov 2 Lonnie Smith Intuitive Surgical President, CEO Mixer Handout

Nov 9 Kim Polese SpikeSource CEO Mixer Handout
Nov 16 Frank Ricks LRK Architecture Founder Dinner Handout
DateSpeakerTalkCompanyTitleAfterwardsMaterials
Apr 6 Geoffrey Moore Dealing with Darwin: The Evolution of Business Strategy Over the Life Cycle of a Category Mixer Venture Partner




Managing Director
Mohr Davidow Ventures (VC)
TCG Advisors
Handout

Slides
Apr 13 Trip Hawkins Startup Strategies From the Founder of EA and Digital Chocolate Mixer Founder, CEO Digital Chocolate (start-up) Handout
Apr 20 Brook Byers Decoding How Venture Capitalists Really Work Today Mixer Partner KPCB (VC) Handout
Apr 27 Roger McNamee The New Normal Dinner Partner Elevation Partners (PE) Handout
May 4 Bill Campbell

Danny Shader
From Start-Up to Success: Lessons in Growing a Company Mixer Chairman

CEO
Intuit

Good (start-up)
Handout

May 11 Tim Draper Change the World -- A Gathering for Heroes Dinner Partner DFJ (VC) Handout
May 18 Jeff Hawkins -- Booksigning and Mixer Founder Numenta (start-up), PalmOne Handout
May 25 Randy Komisar

Debra Dunn
-- None Virtual CEO


VP
TiVo, WebTV

HP
Handout

Speaker List for Winter Quarter 2005: video archive
Date Thought Leader Talk Post-Seminar Event Title Company Handouts
Jan 12 Reid Dennis Venture Capital as a Career - Then and Now Dinner Partner IVP (VC) Handout
Jan 19 Kenneth Denman -- Dinner CEO iPass (wireless) Handout
Jan 26 Peter Fenton

Marc Fleury
-- Mixer Partner

CEO
Accel Partners (VC)

JBoss (open source software)
Handout

Feb 2 John Doerr The Power of Networks and Entrepreneurs n/a Partner KPCB (VC) Handout
Feb 9 Karen Richardson -- Dinner CEO E.piphany (CRM software) Handout
Feb 16 Peter Seligmann A Walk on the Wild Side: True Confessions of a Conservationist Entrepreneur n/a CEO Conservation International (non-profit) Handout
Feb 23 Steve Fodor -- Mixer CEO Affymetrix (biotech) Handout
Mar 2 Kathy Ku -- Mixer Director Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (patents) Handout
Speaker List for Autumn Quarter 2004: video archive
Date Thought Leader Talk Post-Seminar Event Title Company Handouts
Oct 6 Hanson Gifford

Robin Bellas
Hatching Medical Device Ideas: An Approach to New Venture Incubation that Works Mixer President & CEO

General Partner
The Foundry

Morgenthaler Ventures
Handouts

Slides
Oct 13 John Miner Globalization and the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Mixer President Intel Capital Handouts
Oct 20 Guy Kawasaki Art of the Start Mixer + Book Signing Managing Director & Chairman Garage Technology Ventures Handouts

Slides
Oct 27 Bob Sutton What Does a Creative Organization Do? Mixer Professor Stanford University Handouts
Nov 3 Randy Adams AuctionDrop: Tales from the Front   CEO & Co-Founder Auction Drop Handouts
Nov 10 Vic Verma Building to Last: An overnight success after 15 years Dinner President & CEO Savi Technology Handouts
Nov 17 Laura Arrillaga SV2: Strategy and Leverage in Social Innovation Mixer Professor Stanford University Handouts
Spring Quarter 2004:
Date Thought Leader Talk Title Company Handouts
Apr 7 Gajus Worthington From the Bleeding Edge: A Story of High-Tech Entrepreneurship President, CEO, & Co-founder Fluidigm --
Apr 14 Matt James Leveraging For-Profit Enterprises to Promote Non-Profit Messages Senior Vice President Kaiser Family Foundation --
Apr 21 John Hennessy Stanford University: The Wellspring for Silicon Valley President Stanford --
Apr 28 Randy Komisar * Virtual CEO & Author Virtual CEO --
May 5 Jeff Raikes A View from Inside: The Entrepreneurial Process at Microsoft Group Vice President, Productivity & Business Services Microsoft --
May 12 Harris Barton

Ronnie Lott
From Football to Financing: Launching a New Career Managing Member

Managing Member
HRJ Capital --
May 19 Fern Mandelbaum Lessons Learned from a Successful Serial Entrepreneur Partner Monitor Venture Partners --
May 26 Gordon Davidson A Lawyer's Perspective on Silicon Valley Partner, Corporate Group Fenwick & West, LLP --
* Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict with Brad Margus of Perlegen, we are honored to have Randy Komisar on April 28. Winter Quarter 2004:
Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Jan 14 David Morgenthaler
Gary Morgenthaler
General Partners Morgenthaler Handout
Jan 21 Max Levchin
Peter Thiel
Co-founders Paypal Handout
Jan 28 Dr. Donald Francis President and Co-founder Vaxgen Handout/Slides
Feb 4 Bill Campbell

Mike McCue

Chairman

Co-founder, President, and COO
Intuit

TellMe Networks
Handout
Feb 11 Guido Appenzeller
Tim Choi
Co-founder
Product Marketing Manager
Voltage Security Handout/ Slides
Feb 18 Andy Rubin

Joe Britt

Matt Hershenson
Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Founder, Senior VP for Advanced Technology
Danger Handout
Feb 25 Ann Winblad


Heidi Roizen

Co-founder and Partner


Managing Director
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Mobius Venture Capital
Handout/ Slides
Mar 3 Ken Wirt Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Handheld Business Unit palmOne, Inc. Handout / Slides

Autumn Quarter 2003: video archive
Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Oct 1 Jerry Kaplan Serial Entrepreneur -- Handout
Oct 8 Elon Musk Founder, CEO & CTO SpaceX Handout
Oct 15 Nitin Mehta Director Viking River Cruises Handout
Oct 22 Steve Jurvetson Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurvetson Handout
Oct 29 Lynn Reedy
Stephanie Tilenius
Avid Larizadeh
Sr. VP for Technology
Vice President
Product Manager
eBay Handout
Nov 5 Kim Popovits President and COO Genomic Health Handout
Nov 12 Arcadia Kim

Erin Turner

Nick Earl
Development Director, Lord of the Rings
Associate Producer: James Bond 007
VP & General Manager: Redwood Stores Studio
Electronic Arts Handout
Nov 19 Brook Byers


Kim Smith
Partner


Co-Founder & CEO
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers,
NewSchools Venture Fund
Handout
Spring Quarter 2003:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Apr 9 Mike Moritz General Partner Sequoia Capital Handout 4-9-03
Apr 16 Kavita Ramdas President & CEO Global Fund For Women Handout 4-16-03
Apr 23 John Doerr General Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Handout 4-23-03
Apr 30 David Neeleman Founder & CEO JetBlue Airways Handout 4-29-03
May 7 Marc Benioff Founder, Chairman, & CEO Salesforce.com Handout 5-7-03
May 14 Judy Estrin CEO Packet Design Handout 5-14-03
May 21 Dr. Irving Weissman Director Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology & Medicine Handout 5-21-03
May 28 John Thompson Chairman & CEO Symantec Handout 5-28-03
Winter Quarter 2003:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Jan 15 Mar Hershenson & Thomas Heydler Founder, CTO & CEO Barcelona Design Handout 01-15-03
Jan 22 Paul Yock, M.D. Co-founder and Director Stanford Center For Research In Cardiovascular Interventions, Medical Device Network Handout 01-22-03
Jan 29 Jensen Huang Co-Founder, President, & CEO NVIDIA Handout 01-29-03
Feb 5 Geoff Moore Author, Managing Director, & Venture Partner Crossing The Chasm, The Chasm Group, Mohr Davidow Ventures Handout 02-05-03
Feb 12 Bill Campbell & Mike Homer Chairman, Chairman & CEO Intuit, Kontiki Handout 02-12-03
Feb 19 Guy Kawasaki Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO Garage Technology Ventures Handout 02-19-03
Feb 26 Gordon Ringold Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO SurroMed Handout 02-26-03
Mar 5 Wu Fu Chen Founder & Serial Networking Entrepreneur Acorn Campus Handout 03-05-03


Autumn Quarter 2002: video archive not available

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Oct 2 Bing Gordon Chief Creative Officer & Exec VP Electronic Arts Handout 10-02-02
Oct 9 Kamran Elahian Founder & Chairman Global Catalyst Partners Handout 10-09-03
Oct 16 Gajus Worthington Founder, President, & CEO Fluidigm Technology Handout 10-16-03
Oct 23 Jeff Hawkins Founder, Chairman, & Chief Product Officer Handspring Handout 10-23-03
Oct 30 Jay Shiveley Senior Principal Atlas Venture Handout 10-30-03
Nov 6 Olivier Helleboid President, Products Organization BEA Systems Handout 11-06-03
Nov 13 J. Leighton Read, M.D. General Partner Alloy Ventures Handout 11-13-03
Nov 20 Ravi Mhatre & Michael Carrier General Partner, Founder Lightspeed Venture Partners and Totality Software Handout 11-20-03


Spring Quarter 2002: video archive not available

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Apr 10 Bill Sahlman Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance Harvard Business School Handout 4-10-02
Apr 17 John Lilly and Glen Osaka Cofounder & CEO Reactivity Handout 4-17-02
Apr 24 Vinod Khosla VC Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Handout 4-24-02
May 1 Larry Page Founder Google.com Handout 5-1-02
May 8 Steve Jurvetson VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Handout 5-8-02
May 15 Nancy Schoendorf VC Mohr Davidow Ventures Handout 5-15-02
May 22 David Pottruck President and co-CEO Charles Schwab Handout 5-22-02
May 29 Atiq Raza Founder, Chairman, and CEO Raza Foundries, Inc. Handout 5-29-02


Winter Quarter 2001-2002:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Jan 9 Ken Wirt Senior VP Marketing Palm Computing Handout 1-9-02
Jan 16 Heidi Roizen Managing Director Mobius Venture Capital Handout 1-16-02
Jan 23 Judy Estrin Cofounder, President and CEO Packet Design Handout 1-23-02
Jan 30 Gary Bloom CEO and President Veritas Handout 1-30-02
Feb 6 Laura Jennings Partner Atlas Venture Handout 2-6-02
Feb 13 Geoffrey Moore Chairman/Venture Partner The Chasm Group/ Mohr, Davidow Ventures Handout 2-13-02
Feb 20 Julian Nikolchev CEO AVAcore Technologies Handout 2-20-02
Feb 27 Ed Zander President and Chief Operating Officer Sun Microsystems Handout 2-27-02


Autumn Quarter 2001-2002:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Oct 3 Bill Campbell and Randy Komisar Chairman of the Board/ Virtual CEO, Author Intuit/
Virtual CEO
Handout 10-3-01
Oct 10 David Kelley Founder and Chairman Ideo Handout 10-10-01
Oct 17 Mike Klein President and CEO R2 Handout 10-17-01
Oct 24 Carol Bartz Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO Autodesk Handout 10-24-01
Oct 31 Frank Levinson Cofounder and CTO Finisar Corporation Handout 10-31-01
Nov 7 Jo Mei Chang Cofounder and CEO Vitria Handout 11-7-01
Nov 14 Craig Newmark Founder craigslist.org Handout 11-14-01
Nov 28 Rich Redelfs and Teresa Meng President & CEO; Founder CTO Atheros Communications, Inc Handout 11-28-01


Spring Quarter 2000-2001:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Apr 6 Kevin Fong Managing Partner Mayfield --
Apr 13 West Shell III Chairman Netcentives --
Apr 20 Polly Sumner CEO AlphaBlox --
Apr 27 John Doerr Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers --
May 4 Sabeer Bhatia Founder/CEO Hotmail/Arzoo --
May 11 John Thompson CEO Symantec --
May 18 Dr. Sally Ride Astronaut, CEO Imaginary Lines --
May 25 Richard Ferrari Managing Director De Novo Ventures --


Winter Quarter 2000-2001:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Jan 12 Takeshi Natsuno Executive Director, Gateway Business Department NTT DoCoMo --
Jan 19 Denise Brousseau CoFounder Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Springboard2000 --
Jan 26 Debra Dunn VP of Strategy and Corporate Operations Hewlett Packard --
Feb 2 Paul Stoltz President and CEO PEAK Learning, Inc --
Feb 9 Ann Winblad CoFounder, Venture Capitalist Hummer Winblad Venture Partners --
Feb 16 Randy Komisar Virtual CEO, Author Virtual CEO --
Feb 23 Hadi Partovi VP of Production, Board Member Tellme --
Mar 2 Geoffrey Moore Founder, Author, Venture Capitalist The Chasm Group and Mohr Davidow Ventures Slides
Mar 9 Heidi Roisen Venture Capitalist Softbank Venture Capital --


Autumn Quarter 2000-2001:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Handouts/Slides
Sep 29 Sue Hellmann Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Genentech --
Oct 6 Pehong Chen CEO BroadVision --
Oct 13 Dave Peterschmidt CEO Inktomi --
Oct 20 Scott Kriens CEO Juniper Networks --
Oct 27 Vani Kola Founder RightWorks --
Nov 3 Steve Smith Managing Director Broadview --
Nov 10 Tim Koogle CEO Yahoo! --
Nov 17 Tom Siebel CEO Siebel Systems --


Spring Quarter 1999-2000:

Date Thought Leader Title Company
Apr 7 Marc Andreessen Chairman and Co-founder Loudcloud
Apr 14 Geoff Yang Partner and Co-founder Redpoint Ventures
Apr 21 Guy Kawasaki CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder Garage.com
Apr 28 Kevin Fong Partner Mayfield Fund
May 5 John Doerr Partner Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
May 12 Mary Ann Byrnes CEO Logictier
May 19 Angus Davis Co-founder Tellme Networks
May 26 Jeanne Jackson CEO Wal-Mart.com


Winter Quarter 1999-2000:

Date Thought Leader Title Company
Jan 7 Geoff Moore Founder, author Chasm Group
Jan 14 Geoff Mott Managing partner McKenna Group
Jan 21 Jeffrey Smith Founder, CEO, President Tumbleweed.com
Jan 28 Christy Jones Founder, president PC Order
Feb 4 Chris Lochhead Chief marketing officer Scient
Feb 11 Heidi Roizen Managing Director Softbank Ventures
Feb 18 Ta-lin Hsu Chairman H&Q Asia
Feb 25 Ann Winblad Co-founding partner Hummer Winblad
Mar 3 Ken Wirt Founder and CEO Riffage.com


Autumn Quarter 1999-2000:

Date Thought Leader Title Company
Sep 24 Tom Melcher Executive VP, Strategic Development CNET
Oct 1 Mike Volpi Executive VP Business Development and Global Alliances Cisco Systems
Oct 8 Ed Zander President and Chief Operating Officer Sun Microsystems
Oct 15 Phil Goldman Cofounder, Senior VP of Engineering WebTV
Oct 22 Steve Jurvetson Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Oct 29 Gary Dillabough Director Business Development eBay
Nov 5 Heidi Roizen Chairman and Founder Critical Path
Nov 12 Roy Hardiman ** Director of Business and Corporate Development, Far East Representative Genentech
Nov 19 Randy Komisar Virtual CEO Virtual CEO

* Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict with Tom Meredith, we are honored to have Gary Dillabough from eBay on October 29.
** Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict with Nicholas Simon, we are honored to have Roy Hardiman from Genentech on November 12.


Spring Quarter 1998 - 1999:

Date Thought Leader Title Company
Apr 2 Mitch Kapor Founded Lotus, Partner Accel
Apr 9 Guy Kawasaki Founder Garage.com
Apr 16 Kamran Elahian * Co-founder and Chairman Neomagic
Apr 23 Alex d' Arbeloff Chairman MIT
Apr 30 Ray Smilor Vice President of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Kauffman Foundation
May 7 Gary Hamel Author, Competing for the Future; Founder and Chairman Strategos
May 14 Geoff Yang General Partner Institutional Venture Partners
May 21 West Shell Chairman, CEO Netcentives
May 28 Reactivity Panel **  -- Reactivity

*Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict with John Doerr, we are honored to have Kamran Elahian from NeoMagic on April 16.
** Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict with Bob Gett, we are honored to have a panel from Reactivity on May 28.


Winter Quarter 1998 - 1999:

Date Thought Leader Title Company
Jan 8 Geoff Moore Founder, Chairman; Venture Partner Chasm Group; Mohr/Davidow Ventures
Jan 15 Ann Winblad Co-founder Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Jan 22 John Price VP of Marketing Trilogy
Jan 29 Keith Krach Co-founder, Chairman and CEO Ariba
Feb 5 Mark Saul President, CEO and Director Acuity
Feb 12 Barry Sullivan -- EDS
Feb 19 Mitchell Kertzman -- Network Computer
Feb 26 Deborah Stephens -- Center for Innovative Leadership
Mar 5 Aart de Geus -- Synopsys

Autumn Quarter 1998 - 1999:

Date Thought Leader Title Company
Oct 2 Hasso Plattner Founder SAP
Oct 9 Bill Campbell Chairman Intuit
Oct 16 Malcolm Thompson CEO dpiX
Oct 23 Esther Dyson Chairman Edventures Holdings
Oct 30 Dick Anderson General Manager, Enterprise Web Management IBM
Nov 6 David Bernstein President and CEO Pluris
Nov 13 Mike Dodd President of Phillips Components N.A. Philips
Nov 20 Tom Siebel Founder and CEO Siebel Systems
Dec 4 Stratton Sclavos CEO Verisign


Spring Quarter 1997-1998:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Topic & Themes
Apr 3 Jerry Yang Founder Yahoo! --
Apr 10 Ray Smilor -- Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship in the Next Century: Where Will Venture Capitalists Find Their Next Pearl?
Apr 17 Peter Cohan Author Book title: The Technology Leaders The Critical Source of Advantage for America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies
Apr 24 Audrey MacLean Lecturer IEEM, Stanford Entrepreneurship is a TEAM sport!
May 1 John Doerr Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Startup Manual
May 8 Jeremy Jaech CEO Visio What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur
May 15 Mary Ann Byrnes CEO Corsair Communications --
May 22 Katrina Garnett CEO CrossWorlds Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Collaboration and Innovation
May 29 Joe Costello Managing Director CAD.lab If anyone can lead, why do few succeed?-- A Leadership Riddle 


Winter Quarter 1997-1998:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Topic & Themes
Jan 9 Ann Winblad Founder Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Venture Capital in the High-Tech Industry
-- Regis McKenna Founder The McKenna Group --
Jan 23 Geoffrey Moore Founder The Chasm Group Managing High-Tech for Shareholder Value
Jan 30 Steve Smith VP Microprocessor Group Intel The Merced Project
Feb 6 Ronald Croen CEO Nuance Communications The Revolution in Speech Recognition
Feb 13 Pat Gross Co-founder and Vice Chairman American Management Systems Global Growth Challenges
Feb 20 John Luongo CEO Vantive Front Office Automation
Feb 27 Dave Duffield & Ken Morris Founders PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning
-- Lori Mirek Senior VP of Marketing Netscape Managing a Career in High-Tech Marketing
Mar 13 Joe Liemandt Founder & CEO Trilogy Front Office Software


Autumn Quarter 1997-1998:

Date Thought Leader Title Company Topic & Themes
Oct 3 David Wang Executive VP Applied Materials The Future of the Global Semiconductor Value Chain
Oct 10 Geoff Tate CEO Rambus Rambus: The New Memory Interface Standard
Oct 17 Christy Jones President and Founder PC Order pcOrder: An Electronic Commerce Platform
Oct 24 William Perry Former Secretary of Defense -- Technological Competition Versus Security Cooperation
Oct 31 Ed Zander President Sun Microsystems The Network is the Computer
Nov 7 John Morgridge Chairman Cisco Catching the Wave
Nov 14 Duane Zitzner Sector Vice President Hewlett Packard The PC Market
Nov 21 Eric Benhamou Chairman, President, and CEO 3Com Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Collaboration and Innovation
Dec 5 Jean-Louis Gassée President and CEO Be, Inc. --
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